Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward Boston Kosher Butcher Reopens After Fire
BOSTON — 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 of…
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News 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. On July 1, the 59-year-old New York native took the reins as the ninth president of Brandeis, a Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian research university in suburban Boston with an enrollment of 3,600 undergraduates and more than 2,000 graduate students….
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Fast Forward Daniel Aaron, Harvard Prof Who Taught JFK, Dies at 103
BOSTON – 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…
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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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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