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Over 300 grandparents and special friends recently shared an afternoon with students and family members at The Rashi School. The day was highlighted by a lively luncheon, meaningful classroom visits and joyful Kabbalat Shabbat services....
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MARBLEHEAD – He was 17. She was 15. They were madly in love. They had just made it to Vienna together, by the skin of their teeth, lacking money or valid passports. On a journey...
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Born on Aug. 30, 1919 in Quincy, Ruth Goldstein Farber was the middle sister in a family of five girls. When Ruth met her future husband Irving Farber, it was love at first sight. In...
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by M. Irving Herbster, Avrom Herbster, Irving Sacks, Paul Ordman, and Alan Pierce The first known Jewish settlers in Peabody were Louis Karelitz and Charles Halpert, who came from Russia in 1896. At the turn...
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For much of its early history, Salem was a Republican town. In 1867, David Conrad served on the Salem Board of Alderman, according to an article that appeared in the “Man About Town” column of...
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PEABODY – Anastasia Thannhauser Dunau – known to family and friends as Stasi – celebrated her 100th birthday on July 16. A resident of Kaplan Estates in Peabody, Stasi is an extraordinary woman who was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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