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During the Israel Summit at Harvard, retired NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire (left) is interviewed by HBO sports correspondent Jon Frankel, April 8, 2018 (courtesy: Max August)
April 9, 2018, 1:32 pm
Harvard students tout Israel’s global impact at high-profile summit
The brainchild of eight undergrads, Sunday’s event highlights the Jewish state's 'uplifting narratives'
By Matt Lebovic
The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a 1964 press conference about the movement he led until his 1968 assassination. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 26, 2018, 11:45 pm
Previously unheard Martin Luther King synagogue speech broadcast in US schools
Hailed as 'historical gem,' 1961 Massachusetts talk by civil rights leader uses phrases and themes from King’s 'I Have a Dream' address delivered two years later
By JTA
Talia Newfield, left, and Zoe Saldinger at Masada in Israel. (Courtesy of Cathryn Saldinger via JTA)
February 13, 2018, 11:29 pm
Boston mourns Jewish teenager and best friend run down by motorist
'This is the worst time of our lives,' says father of Talia Newfield, who was killed along with Adrienne Garrido as they crossed the street
By Penny Schwartz
Lawrence Bacow speaks as he is introduced as Harvard University's 29th president during a news conference on February 11, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images/AFP)
February 12, 2018, 1:12 am
Lawrence Bacow named next Harvard president
Environmental policy expert, son of Jewish refugee and Auschwitz survivor, to lead university after heading Tufts for a decade
By AP
Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (JTA Collage/De Rosario photo: Courtesy of De Rosario; havdalah items photo: Wikimedia Commons)
January 19, 2018, 2:24 am
Breaking down stereotypes, Jewish day school to host drag queen Shabbat ceremony
Massachusetts' Lander Grinspoon Academy will hold 'Sparkle Havdalah' event in recognition of 'all sorts of family structures in our community'
By Josefin Dolsten
William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts speaks on WGBH news, March 18, 2015. (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 25, 2017, 11:00 pm
Massachusetts struggles to avoid Yom Kippur clash with 2018 primary
Secretary of state seeking ideas to prevent vote on eve of Day of Atonement
By JTA and TOI staff
Temple Adath Sharon. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
November 26, 2017, 11:47 pm
Massachusetts Chabad sued for allegedly infiltrating Conservative synagogue
Members of local, financially struggling Orthodox group said to have taken over board of Temple Adath Sharon and transferred its assets
By JTA
In this Sept. 24, 1962 file photo Leonard Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the inaugural concert in New York's new Philharmonic Hall. (AP Photo, File)
September 21, 2017, 8:35 pm
Boston kicks off a year of US tributes to Leonard Bernstein
2018 is Jewish composer and conductor's 100 year birth anniversary; New York Philharmonic to play tributes to its former director as well
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
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
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