MAP: How Jewish Vote Could Tip Presidential Election in Crucial Swing States
A new study, touted as the first-ever state-by-state, county-by-county Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in key battleground states.
Boston Kosher Butcher Reopens After Fire
BOSTON (JTA) — Six weeks after a fire shuttered Boston’s main kosher supermarket, The Butcherie is now operating on a limited basis from a nearby Brookline location. Selectmen in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, voted last week to give The Butcherie’s owners emergency permission to operate temporarily from the former Rubin’s Deli through the end…
New Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz Says Jewish Values (Still) at Heart of Mission
(JTA) — After 32 years at Middlebury College, Ron Liebowitz is calling Brandeis University his new academic home.
Daniel Aaron, Harvard Prof Who Taught JFK, Dies at 103
BOSTON (JTA) – Daniel Aaron, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who pioneered the field of American studies and taught the likes of John F. Kennedy, has died at 103. A prolific writer and hugely influential intellectual, Aaron, who died on Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is acclaimed for combining his interests in history and literature. The founding president of the…
Ezra Schwartz Mourned at Poignant Funeral in Hometown of Sharon
Ezra Schwartz, the American teenager killed by in a West Bank terror attack, was fondly remembered Sunday by a string of family and friends at his funeral in his hometown of Sharon, Massachusetts.
Concentration Camp Currency Unearthed by Researchers
In the 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, the trappings of Nazi power have become infamous icons of evil — think of the swastika flag, the yellow badge or the striped concentration camp uniform.
Israeli Company Channels Charles River Into New Beer
Desalitech, an Israeli-founded water purification company, has channeled the once-polluted Charles River in Boston into a limited edition brew for Harpoon Brewery.
Caleb Jacoby Hunt Takes Off at Jewish Maimonides School in Boston Suburb
At the Maimonides School, it was all hands on deck as students and faculty mobilized to locate one of their own: Caleb Jacoby, 16, an 11th-grader and the son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby who has been missing since Monday afternoon.
