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A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, July 11, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
July 12, 2017, 12:16 pm
Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism
After one of the Shoah memorial's glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston's response to the incident
By Matt Lebovic
Members of the federal police carry a Nazi statue at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
July 5, 2017, 12:08 pm
Top collector cries foul on Nazi memorabilia trove uncovered in Buenos Aires
Argentinian officials claim recently discovered Nazi-era artifacts are 'original pieces'; some US-based aficionados of Third Reich collectibles beg to differ
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative image of Marblehead Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, Massachusetts. (CC BY-SA joefrogger, Wikimedia commons)
July 3, 2017, 4:02 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Massachussets harbor wall
'End the Jew,' 'Bernie is a cuck,' 'no' symbols surrounding Star of David and IDF are painted in Marblehead; residents to condemn incident
By JTA
The so-called 'People's Court' of Nazi Germany, set up outside of normal constitutional frameworks, 1944 (Public domain)
June 23, 2017, 10:02 pm
Boston event commends Nazi-era citizens’ acts of virtue, even as their judges abetted genocide
Tied to a US Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit on how courts aided Nazi Germany, legal experts discuss the role of tribunals in protecting minorities
By Matt Lebovic
Hillary Clinton listens during commencement at Wellesley College May 26, 2017 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images/AFP)
May 27, 2017, 2:10 am
Clinton delivers stinging attack on Trump at graduation speech
Defeated Democratic candidate implicitly compares president to Nixon
By AFP
Seven-year-old transgender boy Jacob Lemay poses for photos in the yard of his home in Melrose, Massachusetts, on May 9, 2017. (JEWEL SAMAD / AFP)
May 18, 2017, 9:44 pm
Growing up transgender: US family confronts stigma
Mom says her own rebellion from an ultra-Orthodox community helped her navigate the transition of four-year-old daughter Mia into fun-loving son Jacob
By Catherine TRIOMPHE
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah -- and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
People carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York's Times Square, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
March 11, 2017, 5:10 am
ACLU files complaint against revised Trump travel ban
American Civil Liberties Union argues new order is unconstitutional as it discriminates based on religion
By AFP
Illustrative photo of police tape at the JCC in Nashville, Tennessee, after the community center received a bomb threat on January 9, 2017. (Screenshot: The Tennessean)
March 5, 2017, 7:52 pm
Mass. JCC evacuated after bomb threat on locker room wall
Police and firefighters search center in Springfield, Massachusetts, but find no trace of explosives
By JTA
Violinist Yevgeny Kutik performs at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts, on December 16, 2016 (Leah Kleiman)
February 18, 2017, 4:37 am
‘Refugee’ violinist blends Russian-Jewish roots with modern tones
Yevgeny Kutik's family fled the USSR's institutionalized anti-Semitism with a suitcase of sheet music when he was 5. Now he tours the free world with a century-old violin
By Matt Lebovic
At the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, activists gather in support of refugees on February 12, 2017 (Kaila Fleisig)
February 13, 2017, 12:50 am
Protesters invoke Holocaust at Boston rally against Trump immigration ban
In the shadow of New England’s towering Holocaust memorial, community leaders compare situation of Syrian refugees to that of Jews fleeing Nazi Europe
By Matt Lebovic
The only known photo of Theresienstadt inmates performing Verdi's Requiem for the Dead, taken during the final performance on June 23, 1944. Raphael "Rafi" Schachter is seen conducting the choir, with Adolf Eichmann and an International Red Cross delegation in the audience (courtesy: The Terezin Foundation)
February 8, 2017, 11:30 pm
Holocaust survivor Edgar Krasa, singer in Theresienstadt chorus, dies at 95
Krasa fled Czechoslovakia for Israel in 1950s, remaining there for a decade before making his way to Boston
By JTA
Illustrative photo of graffiti featuring a swastika. (CC BY-HHA124L/Flickr/File)
February 3, 2017, 1:16 pm
Mass. teacher suspended for disclosing student’s swastika slur
Educator reprimanded for revealing that she rescinded college recommendation letter over anti-Semitic acts
By JTA
Terminal 1 at JFK Airport (Wikimedia Commons, Doug Letterman, CC BY 2.0)
January 27, 2017, 9:12 am
US man accused of attacking Muslim airline employee at JFK
Authorities say Robin Rhodes allegedly kicked and hurled obscenities at woman, declared Trump 'will get rid of all of you'
By AP
Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (CC BY-zeeweez, Flickr)
January 14, 2017, 6:26 am
Vandals scrawl ‘kill Jews’ at Massachusetts cemetery
Headstones at site knocked off their bases, spray painted with anti-Semitic graffiti
By JTA
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