Topic: Barry Shrage

July 3, 2014
8:46 pm

More than 600 Boston-area Jews attended a Memorial Service for Our Boys outside Boston Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Boston memorial service: ‘Break the silence’ about Israel

Amid calls to support the State of Israel in its response to terrorism, Congressman Stephen Lynch reminds attendees Naftali Fraenkel was also a ‘son of the US’

By Matt Lebovic

July 18, 2013
5:45 pm

Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Boston Jewry implores Netanyahu to back moderate Stav for chief rabbi

The prime minister is urged to help retake the rabbinate from ‘distrusted non-Zionist rabbinical authorities’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

July 2, 2013
9:52 pm

Boston-area federations merge

Recession and demographic changes cited for union of CJP and JFNS

May 8, 2013
1:39 pm

Attack-related art made during ITC session in Boston on May 7, 2013. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Israeli team helps Boston fight back against trauma

It takes a village, say Israel’s top specialists as they reshape individual Bostonians’ suffering and refocus on the community as a source of resilience

By Matt Lebovic

May 3, 2013
9:30 pm

woman carries a girl from their home as a SWAT team searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings enters the building in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Israeli team to bring hard-earned post-trauma expertise to Boston

Israel Trauma Coalition partners with local Jewish federation to help develop ‘recovery process’ for Watertown schools

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 13, 2012
11:11 pm

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky speak at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America last year. (David Karp/JTA)

With Jewish life splintering, federations focus on streamlining work

At annual gathering, communal organizations look toward updated model for philanthropy and budgeting

By Uriel Heilman

April 6, 2012
12:47 am

Peter Beinart (photo credit: Guillaume Gaudet)

Peter Beinart takes aim at Birthright experience

Author charges that neglecting to expose Jewish visitors to Palestinians fail to provide a true Israeli experience