Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward Judges Question Ruling Over Touro Synagogue — And Its $7.4M Torah Bells
BOSTON (JTA) — Ownership of the country’s oldest synagogue and its valuable religious and ritual objects is being decided by a federal appeals court. The hearing of the case by a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston is the latest development in a closely watched legal battle pitting New…
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Fast Forward Edgar Krasa, Survivor Who Sang In Theresienstadt Chorus, Dies At 95
BOSTON (JTA) — Edgar Krasa, a Holocaust survivor who sang in the Theresienstadt concentration camp’s chorus, has died. His death Monday was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Defiant Requiem Foundation, which performs the music created by inmates at Theresienstadt (also known as Terezin). Krasa, who had moved to Boston with his family in the 1960s,…
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Fast Forward Harvard Law School Dean Who Started Jewish Law Program Steps Down
BOSTON (JTA) — After seven years as dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow, a noted legal scholar, expert in human rights and a leader in Jewish causes, will step down at the end of the academic year. Minow, who began teaching at the law school in 1981, says she will remain on the law…
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Culture Ezra Jack Keats Honored With Tribute to ‘The Snowy Day’
As 2016 winds down to a chilly close, it’s time to say “Happy 100th Birthday” to Ezra Jack Keats, the celebrated author of “The Snowy Day.” The classic book for children, published more than 50 years ago, is a tender story of a young African-American boy — clad in a now iconic red-hooded snowsuit — as he…
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News Harvard Students Say Jewish Values Spurred Them To Stand With Striking Cafeteria Workers
When Harvard University students Gabe Hodgkin and Grace Evans started the new school year, they had no way of knowing they’d be spending a good deal of their time on picket lines and at union rallies. But a strike by the university’s 750 dining hall workers struck a deep chord with the two sophomores, who…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Donates $50M to Boston Museum of Science
BOSTON — Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $50 million to Boston’s Museum of Science, crediting his hometown institution with sparking his intellectual curiosity. The contribution, announced Tuesday, is the single largest in the museum’s history and will fund an endowment to support the institution’s education division that is now named the William and…
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Fast Forward Shira Goodman, Boston Community Leader, Named CEO of Staples
BOSTON — Staples appointed longtime Boston Jewish community leader Shira Goodman as the office supply chain’s president and CEO following a worldwide search. Goodman, 55, had been serving in the top executive position on an interim basis since June following the departure of former CEO Ron Sargent. She will helm a company with nearly 1,900…
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Fast Forward MAP: How Jewish Vote Could Tip Presidential Election in Crucial Swing States
(JTA) — 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. The study, released Thursday and conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University in suburban Boston, found that in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — one of…
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