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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

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A man identified as Scott Hayes holds a pistol during a fight with an identified man who attacked him during a pro-Israel rally in Newton, Massachusetts on September 12, 2024. (Screen capture: X/KassyAkiva)
September 13, 2024, 12:47 pm
Man shot after attacking pro-Israel demonstrator in Boston suburb
Activist Scott Hayes who shot his attacker was swiftly arrested and charged, drawing ADL complaint; video shows passerby yelling at group before rushing at Hayes and assaulting him
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A series of defaced posters hanging on a private residence in Newton, Massachusetts on March 17, 2024. (Jeff and Miriam Kosowsky)
March 21, 2024, 6:07 am
Massachusetts cops open hate crime probe into vandalism of homes with pro-Israel signs
String of seven recent incidents being investigated include one in which more than 100 posters displaying Israeli hostages were destroyed in heavily Jewish Boston suburb of Newton
By Andrew Lapin
Blessings for ritual immersion at the Mayyim Hayyim community mikvah in Newton, Massachusetts. (Joel Benjamin/Mayyim Hayyim/via JTA)
June 14, 2018, 10:54 am
Boston-area mikveh in shock after funds go missing
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh, a small but celebrated ritual bath open to all parts of the Jewish community, says an employee misused its money
By Josefin Dolsten
Carrie Bornstein of Boston prepares for an injection during her surrogate pregnancy for a British-Jewish couple living in London, 2017 (courtesy)
April 28, 2018, 5:17 am
A surrogate mother’s ‘logical decision’ to help a couple living 3,269 miles away
By completing a nine-month ‘extreme babysitting’ gig, a Jewish mother aids a childless British couple — and removes stigma surrounding surrogacy in her own community
By Matt Lebovic
During a June 14, 2016 gathering in Newton, Massachusetts, the city's mayor, Setti Warren, addresses the audience about a recent series of anti-Semitic incidents in Newton schools (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
June 16, 2016, 12:48 pm
Boston suburb grapples with anti-Semitism, allegations of a whitewash
A series of incidents at schools has locals accusing education officials of sweeping anti-Jewish hatred under the rug
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative photo of an interfaith wedding ceremony (photo credit: Rebecca Wilson/Creative Commons/JTA)
December 19, 2014, 2:01 am
Prominent Conservative rabbi considers breaking intermarriage ban
Wesley Gardenswartz proposes performing interfaith weddings before backing down, promises not to sever ties with movement
By Uriel Heilman
In West Roxbury's Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries, a row of ten memorial chapels echoes Boston's Jewish heyday, when Roxbury and Dorchester had 90,000 Jews. In this Sept. 2014 photo, a chapel interior shows signs of abandonment. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 23, 2014, 3:23 pm
What happened to the Jews of Boston’s ‘Jew’ Hill Avenue?
The rise and fall of Beantown’s Jewish boomtown parallels America’s urban immigration story
By Matt Lebovic
Now 87, Israel "Izzy" Arbeiter visits Auschwitz, which he survived as a young man while cleaning latrines. (Courtesy of the WWII Foundation)
January 28, 2013, 10:19 pm
Survivor returns to Poland to dig up family history, literally
In a new documentary, Izzy Arbeiter honors a promise to his father made just before the family’s deportation to Treblinka
By Matt Lebovic
January 11, 2013, 8:02 pm
Reform rabbi in Massachusetts considers Senate run
Jonah Pesner is conducting ‘exploratory conversations’ about attempting to take over John Kerry’s seat
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