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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
Aimee Buchanan of Israel competes in the ladies short program at the US International Figure Skating Classic, Day 2, at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex, September 16, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)
February 9, 2018, 9:09 am
Olympian Aimee Buchanan is from Boston via Dallas, but she’s skating for Israel
Buchanan, 24, is one of seven figure skaters to compete for Israel in figure skating team event
By Jori Epstein
Oskar Schindler during one of more than one dozen visits he made to Israel, beginning in 1961. During the Holocaust, Schindler used his factory and bribes to help save Jews from deportation to Nazi-built death camps (public domain)
January 28, 2018, 3:40 am
In Boston, Holocaust-era rescue stories pierce the darkness of genocide
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a conversation about individual efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis' 'Final Solution,' and why the accounts still resonate
By Matt Lebovic
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
January 26, 2018, 2:14 pm
The inevitable politicization of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Since 2005, the UN has commemorated the genocide of European Jewry every year on January 27. This weekend's observance is galvanizing activists from South Carolina to Vienna
By Matt Lebovic
A Philadelphia Eagles-New England Patriots game in 2015. (Jim Rogash/Getty Images via JTA)
January 25, 2018, 7:47 pm
Philadelphia, Boston synagogues make ‘Tzedakah’ Super Bowl wager
Congregation Rodeph Shalom and Temple Israel agree synagogue from losing team's city will donate to charity of the other's choosing
By JTA
Marc Baker (Courtesy of CJP via JTA)
January 25, 2018, 9:09 am
Day school head named top exec at Boston’s $64 million Jewish federation
Rabbi Marc Baker to take over from retiring Barry Shrage at the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
By JTA
David Wright (2L) is depicted standing before Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell (L) with attorney Jessica Hedges (2R) and Nicholas Rovinski during a hearing in federal court in Boston, June 19, 2015. (Jane Flavell Collins via AP, File)
December 20, 2017, 2:50 am
Man sentenced to 28 years in IS-inspired plot to behead conservative blogger
David Wright was convicted of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism in plan to kill Pamela Geller
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (APP)
December 14, 2017, 9:55 am
Swastikas drawn in classroom of Boston-area Jewish teacher
Offensive graffiti, the third such incident in recent months, being investigated as a hate crime
By JTA
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) attends full committee hearing on the nomination of Alex Michael Azar II to be Health and Human Services Secretary on Capital Hill on November 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)
December 8, 2017, 7:41 pm
Sen. Warren critical of Trump decision on Jerusalem
Addressing Reform Judaism convention, Democrat says she worries recognition will make it more difficult to achieve peace in the Middle East
By AP
A participant of an Alt-Right organized free speech event holds his fist up on the Boston Common on November 18, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)
November 19, 2017, 10:57 am
Far-right protesters drowned out by counter-rally in Boston
Three arrested as groups face off for second time on Boston Commons at 'free speech' demonstration adorned with pro-Trump paraphernalia
By TOI staff
Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe are shown in a scene from 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures)
October 25, 2017, 8:17 pm
Harry Potter’s ‘sacred meaning’ probed by Harvard chaplains
Touted as ‘the English class you didn’t know you missed,’ a podcast based on J.K. Rowling’s iconic series has converted Muggles around the country
By Matt Lebovic
Conservative blogger Pamela Geller speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in New York, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
October 19, 2017, 2:01 am
Man convicted in plot to behead right-wing provocateur over cartoon contest
28-year-old David Wright could face life imprisonment over plan to kill blogger Pamela Geller
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Julian Edelman reading from his children’s book at the JCC of Greater Boston, Oct. 10, 2017. (Nikki Cole)
October 15, 2017, 1:05 am
Julian Edelman’s children’s book gets a Jewish makeover
New England Patriots football star reads a special edition of the volume he co-wrote last year to a crowd of 400 kids
By Penny Schwartz
September 10, 2017, 3:37 pm
Renewal in Boston’s North End
A city old enough to have a rich history beneath its present day exterior, and young enough to be forever becoming
By Rachel Sharansky Danziger
West Hall at Tufts University (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
September 8, 2017, 8:57 pm
Tufts University activists call Israel a ‘white supremacist state’
Boston-area school says student guide is not authorized, removes it from official Facebook pages
By Yvette Alt
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