Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward Boston Jews rally together after streak of attacks in the area
BOSTON (JTA) – Days after a series of violent acts stunned Greater Boston and threatened its Jewish community, residents are jolted but resolute, vowing to continue taking pride in their Jewish identity. The latest incident occurred on Thursday, when Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed eight times outside of Shaloh House, a Jewish school and…
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Fast Forward Bella Granek, 89, Holocaust survivor who was great with kids
(JTA) — Bella Granek had a magical touch with babies and young children. When her twin grandchildren were infants, she was often by her daughter’s side lending a hand in their care and knowing just how to get them to sleep. Granek’s many grandchildren delighted in their visits to her home in Lakewood, New Jersey,…
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News Bella Granek, 89, Holocaust Survivor Who Was Great With Kids
(JTA) — Bella Granek had a magical touch with babies and young children. When her twin grandchildren were infants, she was often by her daughter’s side lending a hand in their care and knowing just how to get them to sleep. Granek’s many grandchildren delighted in their visits to her home in Lakewood, New Jersey,…
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News Milton Steinberg, 96, Lover Of Cantorial Music
(JTA) — On the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, the voice of Milton Steinberg rose to the heavens. For more than a decade Steinberg, a Holocaust survivor with a resonant voice and a lifelong passion for cantorial music, joined Cantor Shimon Craimer of the Riverdale Jewish Center during the recitation of the Avodah…
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News Marianne Steiner, 101, Stylish Holocaust Survivor Who Supported Research On German Jewry
(JTA) — As a young Jewish refugee in the late 1930s, Marianne Steiner brought creative flair to her job as a window dresser at Saks Fifth Avenue, the upscale department store in Manhattan. While her family was well off before fleeing Nazi Germany, their finances in New York were more limited. At the time, Steiner…
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News What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.
BOSTON (JTA) – To prepare for Passover, Sam Greene is deep-cleaning his dorm room in keeping with the standards of his Orthodox Jewish family. Lena Ben-Gideon is compiling readings about immigration to supplement her haggadah. And Juliana Sherer is casting her friends in a dramatic performance of “Had Gadya,” the song that plays a prominent…
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Fast Forward A Jewish campus grows in suburban Boston, as Hebrew College announces relocation plan
BOSTON (JTA) – Two years after Hebrew College sold its distinctive building to pay off debt, the pluralistic institution has announced that it will be moving in with a nearby Conservative synagogue. Located less than five miles from Hebrew College’s current space, Temple Reyim’s campus in Newton, a Boston suburb with a long established Jewish…
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Fast Forward Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108
BOSTON (JTA) – Carl J. Shapiro, one of Boston’s most significant philanthropists and Brandeis University’s most generous donor, died March 7 at his home in Boston. He was 108. Shapiro built his initial wealth in the middle of the 20th century by transforming his father’s small coat factory into Kay Windsor, a national manufacturer of…
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