Seniors
Charles Levine turns 99
Charles Levine, of Swampscott, recently celebrated his 99th birthday with his family. Levine was born in Chelsea and moved to Marblehead with wife Faylyn and daughters Dayle and Ellen in the early 1950s. Levine, a...
Read moreAt 97, Estelle Cohen boosts Jewish spirit at Brooksby Village
PEABODY – Estelle Cohen gets it done without breaking a sweat. The North Shore is full of reminders of her quiet competence: the first-ever Torah at Brooksby Village in Peabody; the second floor of the...
Read moreThe unforgettable Arnie Sager
There it was, a large commodious chair with a tallit laid across its arms. It was the first thing the Study, Snack and Service group members saw as they entered the library at Temple Tiferet...
Read moreNursing home to be renamed the Katzman Center for Living
CHELSEA – Elliot and Donna Katzman have never forgotten their roots. Talk to them for a few minutes and you’ll understand that their morals and values – which carried them from modest childhoods in Chelsea...
Read moreHarold Mindel to chant the haftarah at Walnut Street Shul
CHELSEA – The palatial, Romanesque sanctuary of Chelsea’s storied Walnut Street Shul is just as Harold Mindel remembers it back when he chanted the haftarah in 1942. “The people there kept it in great condition...
Read moreSalem’s Jewish history, Part 1
Early records show that some residents of Salem in the late 1600s were Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal whose families escaped the infamous Inquisitions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By the mid-1800s, Jews...
Read moreSocial justice work doesn’t have to be an “extra-curricular” activity
My Rashi class, the class of 2002, founded the “Mitzvah Makers” when I was in the second grade. It was the vision of my classmate Aviva Rosman that our class should do something “good” with...
Read moreThis Father’s Day, missing Dave
Something was terribly wrong this year. While America was commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, I was feeling the loss of my brother-in-law, David Fearer. I used to call him just about every Sunday...
Read morePam DeGroot continues her mother’s mission of educating seniors
For nearly three years, 90-year-old Peabody resident and Chelsea native Natalie Kaplan teamed up with Ellen Gordon, the community relations coordinator at the former Aviv Centers for Living, to bring in a variety of...
Read moreChelsea Jewish Lifecare celebrates 100 years
One hundred years ago, Lena Goldberg started Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home by turning a small multi-family building into a welcoming home for elders. Today that home has grown into Chelsea Jewish Healthcare, one of New...
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