Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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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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News Leo Rechter, 93, Fought For Destitute Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — In 2007, Leo Rechter, testified at a U.S. congressional hearing urging action to speed up the public opening of Nazi war records held at Bad Arolsen in Germany. Then the long-serving president of the National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, or NAHOS, Rechter told legislators that the voices of thousands of Holocaust…
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News William Good, 96, Survivor Of Holocaust Massacre Who Became Beloved California Doctor
(JTA) — When he was a young boy, William Good memorized the first 40 chapters of the Book of Isaiah. As a reward, his father, a successful businessman and a rabbi, bought him a bicycle. In 1941, at age of 17, Good graduated from the Tarbut Hebrew high school in Vilna (now Vilnius, the capital…
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News Italo Servi, 98, Soft-Spoken Heir To Rich Italian Jewish Heritage
(JTA) — When Italo Servi donated an amulet that had been in his family for two centuries to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts five years ago, his children had no idea the object even existed. Servi received the amulet from his mother during a visit home in 1949 while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of…
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News Donald Kraft, 92, Mathematician With Lifelong Zest For Learning
(JTA) — The conversation around Donald Kraft’s Shabbat dinner table was always wide ranging and unpredictable. Some weeks he would marvel at the wonders of a granddaughter’s high school calculator. Other times it might be the latest columns by Mike Royko and Erma Bombeck or the old Israeli oil lamps he collected along with fossils,…
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News Hugh Malcolm Berger, 88, Helped Found Atlanta Home For People With Disabilities
(JTA) — Hugh Malcolm Berger would spend months preparing exquisite desserts for the annual open house at the Atlanta Group Home, a residence for people with developmental disabilities where his daughter, Nanci, has lived since 1984. Berger drew on his Alabama roots for his powdered coconut sugar cookies, but his specialty was Hughie’s Chewies, a…
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