Seniors

SWAMPSCOTT – About a year ago, Lynn native Abraham “Abe” Babbitt and his wife, Frances, were able to greet and hold the newest member of their large family, great-grandson John Wesley Babbitt. Abe Babbitt and...

REVERE – When Audrey Siegel was growing up in Revere in the 1940s, her mother insisted that she attend the Kadima Hebrew School, among the Jewish institutions that were woven into the fabric of the...

Their hug lasted three minutes. It had been nearly five months since Beth Jacobson’s mother, Elaine, had touched another person. Because she had been running a temperature, Elaine, who is 79, had been quarantined in...

Rosalie Sussman had not seen her daughter, Gloria Dove, for over three months. When the Massachusetts Department of Health issued a no-visitors policy for assisted living and nursing homes throughout the state due to COVID-19,...

Jewish War Veterans of Mass­achusetts North Shore Post 220 Past Post Commander Mark Tolpin and JWV National Chief of Staff Barry Lischinsky, with the support of Pride of Lynn Cemetery President Alan Gilbert, wanted to...

Jews passed through Beverly on their way to somewhere else. That changed in 1898 with the arrival of Nicholas and Bessie Zelinsky, who settled into their home at 71 Park St. They were followed by...

For the last month, the new normal for Nicole DeMayo’s workday is nothing she could have imagined. DeMayo, a registered nurse at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center at NewBridge on the Charles, has been part of a...

I just participated in my first virtual funeral. I’ve been to my share of funerals, of all shapes and sizes, but this was a unique experience. My grandmother, Rhoda Brand, died on April 8. She...

On Friday, April 10, 2020, I learned that World War ll Army veteran Lillian Aronson had passed. At 102, she was just three months shy of her 103rd birthday. Lillian was born in Salem and...

On March 31, Sylvia Hertzel, a resident at the Jeffrey and Susan Brudnick Center for Living in Peabody, turned 100. Although her family couldn’t physically be with her to celebrate due the current coronavirus visitation...