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Julie Masis

Rabbi Mark Borovitz kisses Harriet Rossetto. (Courtesy)
May 5, 2023, 10:10 pm
Film tracks the match made in prison that turned a convict into a rabbi on a mission
‘The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief’ tells feel-good true story of Harriet Rossetto and Mark Borovitz, who turned over a new leaf to help former convicts and addicts in LA
By Julie Masis
Lisa and Stuart Kliman pose with Olena Mironyuk, right, and daughters Masha and Alina, in front of the Kliman home in Massachusetts. (Courtesy)
August 26, 2022, 10:35 am
US Jews pay homage to Holocaust survivor ancestors as they aid Ukrainian refugees
Jewish organizations and volunteers step up as a new influx of people fleeing the Russian invasion reach America, while the memory of a complex shared history still lingers
By Julie Masis
Yelena Lembersky, author of 'Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2022, 1:43 am
Relics of a USSR both maddening and sweet emerge in blockbuster Jewish memoir
Yelena Lembersky’s ‘Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour’ is a surprisingly even-handed tale of escape from the Iron Curtain with her grandfather’s famous Babyn Yar massacre paintings
By Julie Masis
Behind the scenes of 'Witness,' a new online production by the Arlekin Players. (Courtesy)
January 8, 2022, 5:53 am
In Boston, COVID sends Russian-Jewish theater group hurtling through space and time
In ‘Witness,’ playing through January 23, the Arlekin Players take their performance online, combining tech elements to transport viewers back to the ill-fated MS St. Louis in 1939
By Julie Masis
Nataniel Sagi discusses the bee species he keeps at his sanctuary on Cozumel Island in Mexico, March 2021. (Julie Masis)
April 17, 2021, 4:10 am
In Mexico, Israeli expat makes a buzz with refuge for endangered stingless bees
Nataniel Sagi learned that local benign species were on the verge of extinction; he’s opened a conservation sanctuary and rescues colonies from deforestation
By Julie Masis
Simon Belenkiy, left, and Sulamif Belenkaya were given monoclonal antibodies to combat COVID-19. (Courtesy)
January 28, 2021, 5:52 pm
Wonder drug that works? Monoclonal antibodies ‘cured’ my grandparents from COVID
US government health bodies warn there’s not nearly enough data to prove efficacy, but doctors report no deaths among thousands of high-risk patients prescribed the new treatment
By Julie Masis
Left: Jewish-Soviet engineer Anatoliy Davidovich Daron was responsible for the rocket engine that put Sputnik I into space. (Courtesy); Top right: A replica of the Sputnik I satellite in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. (Public domain); Bottom right: This undated picture shows a Russian Vostok rocket on its launcher, the same type which propelled Yuri Gagarin to be the first human in space on April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/File)
December 18, 2020, 8:39 pm
USSR engineer made space flight possible despite facing virulent anti-Semitism
Anatoliy Daron, who recently died in US at 94, fled two Nazi massacres, lost his job in the Doctors’ Plot, then, while living in a cramped shared flat, invented Sputnik’s engine
By Julie Masis
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, circa 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera. (photo credit: Marcell Seidler/Courtesy Eric Koch/Library and Archives Canada)
August 16, 2020, 6:55 am
In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps
Online exhibit details how thousands of German and Austrian Jews were arrested in Britain and shipped overseas, where they were kept together with Nazi POWs in harrowing conditions
By Julie Masis
Lionel Groulx speaking before a large crowd, May 24, 1919. (Public domain)
July 1, 2020, 3:32 am
Muslim Montrealer leads charge to rename metro station that honors anti-Semite
Online petition has over 18,600 signatures in favor of replacing Lionel Groulx, a Catholic priest who supported fascism and hated Jews, with Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson
By Julie Masis
Children sing during a program at the JCC Migdal in Odessa, in this undated photo. (Courtesy Kira Verkhovsky)
June 27, 2020, 4:07 pm
Odessa Jews protest new luxury apartments that could collapse historic synagogue
Built as house of prayer for kosher butchers in 1909, structure passed through Nazi and KGB hands and has been a JCC since 1991 — but may not survive new construction project
By Julie Masis
An employee at the entrance of an IGA grocery store in Cote Saint-Luc wears a mask near a station equipped with safety instructions, gloves, and hand sanitizer. (Courtesy)
June 15, 2020, 4:43 pm
Modeling Israel, Montreal suburb becomes first Canadian town to require masks
Majority Jewish Cote Saint-Luc makes face coverings mandatory in public as of June 15; mayor proposed new regulations after conversations with Israeli relatives
By Julie Masis
A volunteer delivers food packages to those in need during the coronavirus crisis. (Courtesy Joint Distribution Committee)
June 4, 2020, 4:46 am
To fight viral blues, elderly in former Soviet bloc prescribed tablet computers
Young adults working with the JDC spur initiative to distribute free handheld computers to give older Jews in forced isolation a necessary community connection
By Julie Masis
Russian police officers, wearing face masks to protect from coronavirus, speak to a woman as they check her documents to ensure a self-isolation regime due to coronavirus, in Moscow, Russia, April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
May 7, 2020, 12:59 pm
A ‘miracle’? Rabbi explains why Russia’s Jews have low COVID-19 death rate
Compared to Jewish communities which became virus epicenters, Russia’s Jews seem to have gotten off relatively easy thus far — and early synagogue closures may be responsible
By Julie Masis
Illustrative: Tourists gather at the Pompeii ancient site near the Villa of Mysteries on the occasion of its presentation to journalists in Pompeii, Italy, Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
December 28, 2019, 5:55 pm
Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii?
The Sibylline Oracles, likely written by a Jew post-Vesuvius eruption, ostensibly prophecy the city’s devastation as divine retribution for sacking of Second Temple 9 years prior
By Julie Masis
Martin Karopkin, front right, speaks at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, while American attorney Phil Weiner, left, listens. (Courtesy)
July 28, 2019, 11:31 pm
Jewish law experts help Cambodian genocide victims find justice at tribunal
As justice is pursued for Khmer Rouge war crimes, US legal pros traverse the globe to assist, finding parallels between the Holocaust and the systematic massacre of 1.5 million
By Julie Masis
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