Seniors
Nursing 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...
Read moreA rabbi’s rabbi: North Shore remembers Jonas Goldberg
MARBLEHEAD – Over his 50 years of service, Jonas Goldberg came to be known as a “rabbi’s rabbi.” From Jerusalem to Georgia to Detroit to the North Shore, Rabbi Goldberg developed a reputation as a...
Read moreSo many memories; so many Seders; so many people no longer with us
Whether you call it Passover or Pesach, you don’t need radar to know when the holiday is on its way. Temples begin sending out flyers for their annual Seder and if you’re fortunate, you start...
Read moreSurvivors of persecution gather in safety at Café Hakalah
MARBLEHEAD – Café Hakalah, which for the last decade has organized monthly gatherings of food, entertainment, and camaraderie for survivors of Soviet and Nazi persecution, derives its name from the Hebrew word for “safety.” “It’s...
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