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Sons of Israel in Peabody honors Glassman and Leavitt
On Friday, May 3, during Sabbath services, the Humanitarian Committee of Congregation Sons of Israel in Peabody awarded the 9th Annual Congregation Sons of Israel Scholarship to Leah Glassman. The Bea Greenberg Memorial Scholarship was...
Read moreCampus Climate Update
The Lappin Foundation and the Jewish Journal recently hosted Campaus Climate Update, a passionate student-led discussion for the community about their challenges and responses to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activities and sentiments on their college campuses...
Read moreHaunted by a visit to Birkenau
There is no easy or simple way to describe the feelings experienced walking through the Birkenau death camp outside Oświęcim, Poland. For the duration of my visit, I felt haunted by the more than a...
Read moreThe Millennials: Jamie Ehrlich
NAME: Jamie Ehrlich, 23 HEBREW NAME: Leah Devorah HOMETOWN: Marblehead CURRENTLY LIVING IN: Washington, D.C. ALMA MATERS: Marblehead High School ’14, University of Chicago ‘18 JOB: Associate producer, CNN FAVORITE FOOD: I would be totally fine if both peanut butter and...
Read moreYoung ambassadors bring Israel to the North Shore
GLOUCESTER – As Michal Sela and Sapir Uzan prepare to return to Israel in mid-June, the 19-year-olds are enjoying the same blur of fun, learning, and teaching – and laughing and singing – that has...
Read moreThe Millennials: Becky Eidelman
Becky Eidelman, 30 HEBREW NAME: Rivka Chana HOMETOWN: Marblehead CURRENTLY LIVING IN: Cambridge ALMA MATERS: Marblehead High School ’07, Wesleyan University ’11 JOB: Program manager, Jobs for the Future FAVORITE FOOD: Matzah ball chicken soup...
Read moreA bat mitzvah that hits all the right notes
It turns out when your grandma is a celebrated event planner, the sky’s the limit. “It’s amazing, because she could get anything I wanted, and she’s super creative,” said Laci Robbins of Lynnfield, who worked...
Read moreTeen Legacy Fellows preserve and perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust
In April 2018, Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman visited Auschwitz with their dear friend David Schaecter, a 90-year-old survivor who spent over two years of his youth in this indescribable death camp. “While standing in...
Read moreStudents to deliver ‘Campus Climate Update’ May 30 in Peabody
College sophomores Elana Zabar and Ben Dobrusin know what it’s like to speak up for Israel and be called “racist.” On the University of New Hampshire campus, where a small Holocaust memorial was once destroyed,...
Read moreEpstein Hillel School celebrates Passover
Students from Epstein Hillel School in Marblehead enjoyed a seder at school.
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