Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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News Ezra Schwartz Mourned at Poignant Funeral in Hometown of Sharon
(JTA) — For some 2 1/2 hours, Ezra Schwartz was remembered for his unbridled joy and passion for life, his deep and ever-widening circle of friends, and his athletic prowess as a champion baseball player and adventure-seeking skier. Hundreds of mourners filled a Boston-area synagogue sanctuary on Sunday and dozens more stood outside to hear about…
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Breaking News Concentration Camp Currency Unearthed by Researchers
(JTA) — 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. But have you ever heard of “Holocaust money,” the currencies that the Nazis forced on Jews…
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Food Israeli Company Channels Charles River Into New Beer
From left, Charlie Storey of Harpoon Brewery and Nadav Efraty, Rick Stover and Francesco Fragasso of Desalitech toasting their production of Charles River Pale Ale. JTA – An Israeli-founded water purification company has teamed up with Boston-based Harpoon Brewery to channel the once-famously polluted Charles River into a new beer. Desalitech, which started in Israel…
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Breaking News Caleb Jacoby Hunt Takes Off at Jewish Maimonides School in Boston Suburb
(JTA) — 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. At the school’s computer lab, kids were working social media, spreading…
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News Illuminating the Calendar’s Joys, From Nisan to Adar
Ilene Cooper knows children’s books. As the children’s book editor at Booklist — the review journal of the American Library Association — her eyes graze the roughly 5,000 colorful mini-tomes that cross her desk each year as their writers gnaw their nails, hoping for positive reviews. Cooper empathizes: She’s an author herself, with more than…
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