Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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News Hyman Siegal, 90, Taught Young Leonard Nimoy To Develop Film
BOSTON (JTA) – As a teenager growing up in the West End of Boston in the early 1940s, Hyman Siegal was a regular at the West End House, a philanthropic club that offered programming for the sons of immigrants and a place to gather away from the crowded tenement homes. It was there that he…
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News Meryl Cohen, 84, Hosted Epic Family Thanksgiving Celebrations
BOSTON (JTA) – Ask those knew Meryl Cohen best and it won’t take long before they start talking about Thanksgiving. The large, weekend-long gatherings became her calling, showcasing Cohen’s culinary talents and reflecting her passion for bringing together an ever-widening circle of extended family, friends and new acquaintances fortunate enough to snag an invite. Cohen…
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News Bud Rose, 77, ‘The Steve Jobs Of Medicine’
BOSTON (JTA) – Nearly three decades ago, Burton Rose, a highly regarded kidney specialist and professor at Harvard Medical School, turned a rejection by the publisher of his medical textbook into a new venture that ultimately transformed the way medical practitioners work. In 1992, Rose launched UptoDate after the publisher of his seminal book, “Clinical…
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Fast Forward 32 residents die of coronavirus at 2 Mass. Jewish living facilities
BOSTON (JTA) – Thirty-two residents at two Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from COVID-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus. Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its three Boston-area locations, and 21 residents at JGS Lifecare in…
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Fast Forward Stars of David spray-painted on Boston apartment buildings
BOSTON (JTA) – Stars of David graffiti were spray-painted on two apartment buildings in a Boston neighborhood. Police are investigating the incidents in the South End that occurred overnight Saturday as acts of vandalism. It’s too early in that process to call the vandalism anti-Semitic, Robert Trestan, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New England…
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Fast Forward 8 Swastikas Discovered At Smith College
BOSTON (JTA) — Smith College in Massachusetts was vandalized with a rash of swastikas. Local police have joined the investigation into the incident at the prestigious all-women school in Northhampton, about 100 miles west of Boston. Students reported finding at least one swastika on a wall in an academic building on Thursday. Police then searched…
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Fast Forward Israeli Flag Tagged With Swastika Found Near Cape Cod Shul
BOSTON (JTA) — – An Israeli flag defaced with a swastika and white supremacist symbols was found on the grounds of a Cape Cod synagogue hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Police are investigating the incident at Falmouth Jewish Congregation after being notified by the synagogue’s rabbi, Elias Lieberman, who found the flag on…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Calling Holocaust ‘Fake News’ Posted At Synagogue
BOSTON (JTA) — Two anti-Semitic fliers that deny the Holocaust were posted at a Massachusetts synagogue, with reports of similar incidents at synagogues in two other states. Police are investigating what the Anti-Defamation League described as a coordinated campaign by a national online white supremacist group. The fliers at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a town…
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