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

October 6, 2021

New children’s books for the Jewish New Year

August 18, 2021

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

April 9, 2021

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

March 24, 2021

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

March 23, 2021

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

March 22, 2021

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

March 15, 2021

Leo Rechter, 93, fought for destitute Holocaust survivors

March 12, 2021

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

March 8, 2021

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

February 26, 2021

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

February 26, 2021

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

February 22, 2021

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

February 8, 2021

Donald Kraft, 92, mathematician with lifelong zest for learning

February 3, 2021

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

November 3, 2020

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

September 1, 2020

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

August 25, 2020

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

July 27, 2020

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

June 25, 2020

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

June 19, 2020

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

June 19, 2020

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

June 18, 2020

Sylvia Glenn, 98, painter who befriended Margaret Mead

June 9, 2020

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

June 3, 2020

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

June 2, 2020

Jeffrey Sanderson, 62, took pleasure in the small things

May 26, 2020

Lee Kozol, 87, Boston attorney who represented the Patriots

May 20, 2020

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

May 18, 2020

Meryl Cohen, 84, hosted epic family Thanksgiving celebrations

May 5, 2020

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

April 29, 2020

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

April 14, 2020

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

April 7, 2020

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

April 7, 2020

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

April 3, 2020

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

March 25, 2020

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

February 26, 2020

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

January 15, 2020

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

December 16, 2019

The earliest known American Jewish novel introduces an early feminist voice

November 19, 2019

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

November 12, 2019

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

July 16, 2019

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

July 2, 2019

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

June 12, 2019

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

June 6, 2019

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

May 17, 2019

Police probe second suspicious fire at Boston-area Chabad

May 17, 2019

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

May 16, 2019

Diary of WWII’s Monuments Man given to National Archives

April 30, 2019

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

March 28, 2019

Immigrant tale wins top Jewish children’s book honor

January 28, 2019

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

December 18, 2018

What’s new for kids to read at Hanukkah? Try a fresh take on a 1950s classic.

November 26, 2018

Hebrew College installs its first female president

October 16, 2018

Harvard’s Jewish president wants to restore faith in higher education

September 7, 2018

New children’s books: A magical shoebox and animals from everywhere

September 5, 2018

A Jewish atonement ritual (not the chicken one) gets an eco-friendly makeover

September 4, 2018

Boston’s Hebrew College sells its campus to shore up its future

August 20, 2018

Unique museum tells story of Polish family murdered for hiding Jews during Holocaust

June 27, 2018

Century-old Boston synagogue receives city funds for historic preservation

June 25, 2018

Boston-area city council turns away BDS resolution

April 22, 2018

Leonard Bernstein at 100: 7 treasures from the Library of Congress’ celebration of the Jewish maestro

April 16, 2018

Harvard’s first-ever summit on Israel brings Amar’e Stoudemire and good news to campus

April 10, 2018

30 years later, the author of ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ has a new young adult Holocaust novel

March 14, 2018

Boston mourns Jewish girl and best friend killed by motorist

February 13, 2018

A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia’s Jews

January 16, 2018

Massachusetts, Rhode Island change primary dates to avoid conflict with High Holidays

January 10, 2018

Jewish institutions batten down as monster storm hits East Coast

January 4, 2018

The Reform movement is alive with the sound of music

December 14, 2017

Debates with Israel weigh on Reform movement’s largest-ever gathering

December 8, 2017

Here are 8 new children’s books for Hanukkah

November 29, 2017

Harvard honors a professor who helped its Jewish life flourish

November 1, 2017

Julian Edelman’s children’s book gets a Jewish makeover

October 11, 2017

School project to remember Holocaust victims surpasses goal of 11 million stamps

October 2, 2017

A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ is scared, but refuses to despair

September 6, 2017

5 new kids’ books for the High Holidays

September 6, 2017

Krakow JCC’s new preschool signals hope for a community’s rebirth

September 1, 2017

Festival organizers in Krakow ask: Who speaks for Jewish culture?

July 18, 2017

7 new kids’ books for Passover, from seder guides to stories

April 5, 2017

Ted Cutler, Boston philanthropist, businessman, and arts patron, dies

April 2, 2017

Control over Touro Synagogue and its $7.4 million silver bells back in court

March 13, 2017

Edgar Krasa, a Holocaust survivor who sang in the Theresienstadt chorus, dies at 95

February 8, 2017

Ruth Bader Ginsburg picture bio takes a top honor in Jewish children’s book awards

January 11, 2017

Harvard Law School dean, initiator of Jewish and Israeli program, to step down

January 5, 2017

Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats honored in new children’s book

December 14, 2016

6 new Hanukkah kids’ books to help enlighten the holiday

November 25, 2016

Harvard Hillel sought a kosher deal for striking food workers

October 26, 2016

Michael Bloomberg donates $50 million to Boston Museum of Science

October 18, 2016

Study shows how Jewish vote could play crucial role in key states

September 22, 2016

6 new kids’ books for the Jewish New Year

September 20, 2016

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