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In new Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn

Penny Schwartz, JTA
Published March 4, 2025

New Hanukkah children’s books highlight 2024’s rare Christmas overlap

Penny Schwartz, JTA
Published December 6, 2024

A young Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston

Penny Schwartz, JTA
Published October 29, 2023

Henry Rosovsky, refugee from the Nazis who shaped Harvard University, dies at 95

Penny Schwartz, JTA
Published November 18, 2022

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘The Sopranos’: A gritty, forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem is published in English for the first time

Penny Schwartz
Published October 6, 2021

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

New children’s books for the Jewish New Year

PENNY SCHWARTZ, JTA
Published August 18, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

jta
Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

Marianne Steiner, 101, stylish Holocaust survivor who supported research on German Jewry

Penny Schwartz
Published April 9, 2021

A Boston-area high school football team used ‘Auschwitz’ and ‘rabbi’ to call plays

Penny Schwartz
Published March 24, 2021

What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.

Penny Schwartz
Published March 23, 2021

A Jewish campus grows in suburban Boston, as Hebrew College announces relocation plan

Penny Schwartz
Published March 22, 2021

Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108

Penny Schwartz
Published March 15, 2021

Leo Rechter, 93, fought for destitute Holocaust survivors

Penny Schwartz
Published March 12, 2021

In new Passover children’s books, a bespectacled lion reads the Haggadah and a Depression-era mitzvah

Penny Schwartz
Published March 8, 2021

William Good, 96, survivor of Holocaust massacre who became beloved California doctor

Penny Schwartz
Published February 26, 2021

Italo Servi, 98, soft-spoken heir to rich Italian Jewish heritage

Penny Schwartz
Published February 26, 2021

Jewish prisoner’s photos depicting horrid life in Lodz Ghetto donated to Boston museum

Penny Schwartz
Published February 22, 2021

Another accolade for Max Gross’ ‘Lost Shtetl’: Best fiction from Association of Jewish Libraries

Penny Schwartz
Published February 8, 2021

Donald Kraft, 92, mathematician with lifelong zest for learning

Penny Schwartz
Published February 3, 2021

From llamas to a Jewish superhero, these 8 children’s books bring new characters into the Hanukkah story

Penny Schwartz
Published November 3, 2020

Bradley Fields, 68, renowned magician who studied Talmud and taught math to kids

Penny Schwartz
Published September 1, 2020

This rabbi spent 4 months on a ventilator and endured 4 collapsed lungs from COVID-19. Now he’s recovering.

Penny Schwartz
Published August 25, 2020

How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

Penny Schwartz
Published July 27, 2020

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

JTA
Published July 2, 2020

Sidney Forman, 95, lived out a dream with performance of musical comedy he wrote in the 1960s

Penny Schwartz
Published June 25, 2020

A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ breathes a sigh of relief after US Supreme Court preserves DACA

Penny Schwartz
Published June 19, 2020

This Jewish Boston bookseller wants to help you spruce up your Zoom background

Penny Schwartz
Published June 19, 2020

Ohio’s Health Dept. director resigns after backlash over stay-at-home orders

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust survivor who designed underwater museum exhibits

Penny Schwartz
Published June 18, 2020

Sylvia Glenn, 98, painter who befriended Margaret Mead

Penny Schwartz
Published June 9, 2020

Elsa Dorfman, photographer who was subject of Errol Morris film, dies at 83

Penny Schwartz
Published June 3, 2020

Carolyn Becker, 83, was looking forward to life’s next chapter

Penny Schwartz
Published June 2, 2020

Jeffrey Sanderson, 62, took pleasure in the small things

Penny Schwartz
Published May 26, 2020

Lee Kozol, 87, Boston attorney who represented the Patriots

Penny Schwartz
Published May 20, 2020

Hyman Siegal, 90, taught young Leonard Nimoy to develop film

Penny Schwartz
Published May 18, 2020

Meryl Cohen, 84, hosted epic family Thanksgiving celebrations

Penny Schwartz
Published May 5, 2020

Bud Rose, 77, ‘the Steve Jobs of medicine’

Penny Schwartz
Published April 29, 2020

32 residents die of coronavirus at 2 Massachusetts Jewish senior living facilities

Penny Schwartz
Published April 14, 2020

Sun Valley, Idaho, a celebrity destination, is a coronavirus hot spot. Here’s how the local Jewish community is coping.

Penny Schwartz
Published April 7, 2020

Robert Lappin, Jewish philanthropist and founder of teen Israel program, dies at 98

Penny Schwartz
Published April 7, 2020

In new Passover children’s books, meet a googly eyed gator and spend a seder in outer space

Penny Schwartz
Published April 3, 2020

Lawrence Bacow, Harvard University’s Jewish president, has the coronavirus

Penny Schwartz
Published March 25, 2020

Stephan Ross, survivor who founded New England Holocaust Memorial, dies

Penny Schwartz
Published February 26, 2020

Trailblazing book by Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats is most checked-out book ever at New York Public Library

Penny Schwartz
Published January 15, 2020

‘Goodnight Bubbala’ and other Hanukkah-themed children’s books for the holiday season

Penny Schwartz
Published December 16, 2019

The earliest known American Jewish novel introduces an early feminist voice

Penny Schwartz
Published November 19, 2019

High-profile Israel boycott conference at UMass Amherst sparks concern — and a peace march

Penny Schwartz
Published November 12, 2019

Anti-Semitic fliers in Massachusetts declare Holocaust ‘fake news’

Penny Schwartz
Published July 16, 2019

Passover inspires one of the top 50 public arts projects of 2018

Penny Schwartz
Published July 2, 2019

This chef turned his popular falafel truck into a booming Israeli restaurant

Penny Schwartz
Published June 12, 2019

Boston area rallies after Chabad rabbis are targeted with anti-Semitic slurs on Shabbat

Penny Schwartz
Published June 6, 2019

Police now probing 3 fires at 2 Boston-area Chabad houses

Penny Schwartz
Published May 17, 2019

Police probe second suspicious fire at Boston-area Chabad

Penny Schwartz
Published May 17, 2019

Fire at Chabad center in suburban Boston investigated as possible hate crime

Penny Schwartz
Published May 16, 2019

Diary of WWII’s Monuments Man given to National Archives

Penny Schwartz
Published April 30, 2019

A ‘Sesame Street’ seder and 4 other new children’s books for Passover

Penny Schwartz
Published March 28, 2019

Immigrant tale wins top Jewish children’s book honor

Penny Schwartz
Published January 28, 2019

Jewish studies conference celebrates 50 years of explosive growth in the field

Penny Schwartz
Published December 18, 2018

Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Israeli special ops force was in Gaza for two months before its firefight with Hamas, report says

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

OSU student government votes down Israel boycott and divestment resolution

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Arrest made in attack on Hasidic man in Brooklyn

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Super soccer star Messi joins Beitar Jerusalem team fans club

JTA
Published December 6, 2018