November 12, 2014
2:02 am

Academy Award-winning actress and activist Marlee Matlin speaking about her Jewish heritage, career and experience overcoming disabilities at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in suburban Washington, Nov. 10, 2014. (photo credit: Ron Sachs/JTA)

US Federations’ GA was part pep rally, part training session, part reunion

Collaboration emerged as key for leaders gearing up with new programs and new methods of outreach to disaffected young Jews

By Uriel Heilman

August 13, 2014
1:01 am

Rabbi Matthew Soffer, director of the Riverway Project, leads a Torah discussion at a Riverway Cafe gathering in Cambridge, Mass., May 2014. (Courtesy Riverway Project/JTA)

Boston initiatives reach for young Jews where they are

Whether it be at a ballfield or a bar, outreach efforts in Beantown are successfully drawing in unaffiliated young adults

By Anthony Weiss

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