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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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