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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
John Reardon of Millis, Massachusetts, appears in an undated booking photograph after his arrest for allegedly making a threatening call to a synagogue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. (Attleboro Police Department/Handout)
August 15, 2025, 5:19 am
Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate
‘You do realize that by supporting genocide that means it’s OK for people to commit genocide against you,’ John Reardon said on one of his phone calls, according to court papers
By Nate Raymond
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
Dancers perform a piece by Dalia Davis honoring the families of hostages held in Gaza, at a dress rehearsal prior to the annual Israeli Folkdance Festival of Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Aryeh Blanshay)
March 21, 2024, 1:03 am
In Boston, dancers perform moving homage to families of hostages in Gaza
Israeli folk dance festival at MIT features unique piece by Dalia Davis, as black and gray-clad performers — including a state senator — honor those in Hamas captivity
By Rich Tenorio
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
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
June 11, 2022, 4:43 am
Democrats, including Pressley, condemn pro-Palestinian mapping Boston Jewish groups
Politicians warn that map, which includes the names, addresses and staff members of many Jewish organizations, could incite violence against Jewish community
By Andrew Lapin
A map of purported connections between Jewish groups and other organizations in Massachusetts created by The Mapping Project. (Screenshot/JTA)
June 11, 2022, 3:59 am
Pro-Palestinian group posts map of Massachusetts naming local ‘Zionist leaders’
Jewish arts group, schools, synagogues among network alleged to be responsible for wide-ranging societal harms by the anonymous page, which also names the organizations’ staffers
By Andrew Lapin
A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, on July 11, 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
April 12, 2022, 11:55 pm
Boston couple helping city build its first Holocaust museum
Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman say museum, which will be located near Boston Common, will strive ‘to make the lessons of the Holocaust relevant to new generations’
By Andrew Lapin
A server carries rolls to a table of customers seated outside at Legal Sea Foods, on May 26, 2021, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
February 27, 2022, 7:47 pm
George Berkowitz, the founder of Legal Sea Foods, dies at 97
Son of a Russian immigrant, Berkowitz founded the now-sprawling restaurant chain in 1950 as a fish market in a Boston suburb
By AP
Khaled Awad, left, appears in Brighton District Court in Boston on July 8, 2021, for a dangerousness hearing. Awad has been charged with stabbing Rabbi Shlomo Noginski several times near a Jewish day school. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool)
July 8, 2021, 11:30 pm
Prosecution adds hate crime charges to suspect in stabbing of Boston rabbi
Attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish school on July 1 ‘was rooted in antisemitism’ district attorney says; Khaled Awad to undergo competency evaluation
By AP
Hundreds gather on July 1, 2021, for a rally in Brighton, Mass., in support of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, who was stabbed the day before in the same park across the street from his Jewish day school. (Courtesy of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston via JTA)
July 7, 2021, 5:00 am
Boston Jews rally together after streak of attacks in the area
Jewish leaders say community is feeling vulnerable and angry, with last week’s stabbing of Chabad rabbi a tipping point
By Penny Schwartz
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in a Boston hospital recovering from a stabbing attack on July 1, 2021. (Rabbi Dan Rodkin)
July 3, 2021, 10:59 pm
Wounded Boston rabbi says stabbing attack was ‘unequivocally’ antisemitic
‘I thank God for this miracle,’ says Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, recalling moments from Thursday assault in which he was stabbed 8 times
By ToI Staff and AP
Khaled Awad is led into court while arraigned on charges in the stabbing of a rabbi near a Jewish day school, in Brighton District Court in Boston, Friday July 2, 2021. (Mary Schwalm/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
July 3, 2021, 6:37 am
Suspect in stabbing of Boston rabbi held without bail; hate crime probe opened
Khaled Awad, 24, pleads not guilty; has previously faced charges in Florida of battery and theft and was sent to a mental health facility there
By AP
President Harry Truman poses with a committee from the American Association of English-Jewish newspapers in Washington, on Feb. 21, 1949 including fourth from right, Dr. Alexander Brin of the Boston Jewish Advocate (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)
September 24, 2020, 2:58 pm
Boston’s 118-year-old Jewish Advocate suspends publication
Weekly founded by Herzl says declining advertising revenue, worsened by pandemic, hasn’t been offset by contributions and organizational support; says it plans a digital edition
By Marcy Oster
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