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Illustrative: A woman lays out tarot cards in the back of her shop in Norfolk, Virginia, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
May 20, 2026, 6:17 pm
Did medieval Jews hide a ‘secret synagogue’ in tarot cards? Boston exhibit turns over clues
‘Torah in the Tarot,’ named for researcher Stav Appel’s book of the same name, runs through June at the Vilna Shul, makes claim the deck was created by early crypto-Jews
By Rich Tenorio
Scott Sokol, head of school at MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham, Massachusetts, leading morning circle, in 2019. (Courtesy of MWJDS via JTA)
February 3, 2026, 10:02 am
Boston-area Jewish school closing after 25 years, says model ‘no longer sustainable’
Framingham’s MetroWest Jewish Day School to shutter its doors; head of school cites ‘substantially lower enrollment,’ as Jewish day schools around the US struggle
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A 173-foot tower crain hoists a 20th century 12-ton railcar into the upcoming Holocaust Museum Boston. (Kenneth Berman Photography via JTA)
November 26, 2025, 10:03 pm
Boxcar of same type used by Nazis to herd Jews installed at new Boston Holocaust museum
Donor’s father was transported to Treblinka in same type of railcar, was among death camp’s fewer than 100 survivors; museum, opening 2026, will be first of its kind in New England
By Grace Gilson
(L-r) Somerville for Palestine supporters celebrate a projected win for a non-binding resolution imploring the Boston suburb to divest from companies that do business with Israel, in New Jersey, November 4, 2025; a still from an ad opposing the measure paid for by a local Jewish group. (Screenshot via Instagram; Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)
November 5, 2025, 12:07 pm
In first, voters in Boston suburb back municipal proposal to divest from Israel
While anti-Israel activists celebrate, mayoral candidate who endorsed measure concedes to rival, Jake Wilson, who did not; Jewish groups ran TV ads against ballot question
By Andrew Lapin
A brick thrown through the window of the Butcherie in Brookline, Massachusetts, June 15, 2025. (Brookline Police Department handout)
June 16, 2025, 5:56 am
Brick reading ‘Free Palestine’ thrown through window of Boston-area kosher eatery
Police in Brookline investigating incident at the Butcherie as a hate crime; grocery store says it was ‘an attack on the Jewish community’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Former hostage Omer Shem Tov, center, celebrates as he is received at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, May 15, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
May 24, 2025, 10:36 am
Three months after release, Omer Shem Tov deals with guilt of enjoying everyday life
On trip to Boston, where he threw first pitch at his first-ever baseball game, ex-hostage recounts abuse and starvation, expresses fear renewed Gaza op will kill those left behind
By AP and ToI Staff
Houston Astros' Alex Bregman bats during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, September 22, 2024, in Houston. (AP/Kevin M. Cox)
February 13, 2025, 6:45 pm
Jewish slugger Bregman signs $120 million deal with Red Sox
Contract marks highest-ever annual salary for a Jewish MLB player as 3rd baseman — who sported Star of David on hat after Oct. 7 attack — leaves Astros for Boston
By ToI Staff and AP
Security camera footage shows a person suspected of having a connection to a fire at the home of a rabbi, which serves as a Chabad community center, in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 11, 2019. (Screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 18, 2024, 11:57 pm
Brother of suspect in Boston antisemitic arsons pleads guilty to obstructing justice
Former security guard at US embassy in Sweden admits he tampered with documents related to his brother, the prime suspect in a 2019 spree of antisemitic arsons, who died in 2020
By AP
NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 4, 2024, 12:57 pm
A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?
Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage
By Rich Tenorio
A man was rushed to the hospital with severe burn wounds after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston (pictured) on September 11, in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images via JTA)
September 17, 2024, 3:08 am
Boston man suffering from severe burns after self-immolating outside Israeli consulate
Matt Nelson had warned in a video uploaded to YouTube that he was going to engage in an ‘extreme act of protest’ due to ‘the ongoing genocide in Gaza’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Ruth Fein, the first woman to chair Boston's Combined Jewish Philanthropies, enjoys a boat ride in Lake George, Massachuseets. (Michael Fein via JTA)
February 28, 2024, 11:05 am
Ruth Fein, ‘absolute giant of the Boston Jewish community,’ dies at 96
Shattering glass ceilings every step of the way, Fein played a transformational role in Jewish communal life, infusing her work with her passion for Jewish and social causes
By Penny Schwartz
A file photo of a Homeland Security vehicle parked outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, April 19, 2023, in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne, File)
January 30, 2024, 1:54 am
Massachusetts man arrested for alleged threats to bomb synagogues, kill congregants
59-year-old suspect left threatening voicemails for two synagogues and a Jewish organization, faces up to 10 years in jail
By AP and ToI Staff
Demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza after shutting down the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in conjunction with the APEC Summit taking place, November 16, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP/Noah Berger)
November 17, 2023, 1:01 am
Demonstrators demanding ceasefire in Gaza block bridges in San Francisco and Boston
Protesters accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in war against Hamas, call to end US military aid while shuttering major span of Bay Bridge during trade summit attended by Biden
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Eliza Kanner is entering her third season as a cheerleader for the New England Patriots. (Courtesy of the New England Patriots/Dwight Darian)
June 24, 2023, 3:18 am
Meet Eliza Kanner: Israel advocate by day, New England Patriots cheerleader by night
Her day job is senior development officer at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Boston-area Jewish federation. Since 2021, she’s also an NFL cheerleader
By jacob gurvis
Economy Minister Nir Barkat arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 16, 2023, 5:13 pm
‘Israel shooting itself in the foot,’ Jewish leaders warn Barkat in Boston
Heads of Jewish organizations tell economy minister that government’s extremist members and judicial overhaul are making defending Israel a tall task
By ToI Staff
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