Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward Century-Old Boston Synagogue Receives $500K For Preservation
BOSTON (JTA) – A century-old synagogue that serves as a Jewish cultural center will receive $500,000 from the city for historic preservation of the once-abandoned building that is now a landmark and tourist destination. The restoration is important to the history of Boston’s immigration, according to Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim. “It tells a story…
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Fast Forward Cambridge, Mass., Home Of Harvard And MIT, Turns Away BDS Resolution
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) — A campaign calling on the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts to not renew its contract with Hewlett Packard because of its business ties with Israel was dealt a setback when a group behind the proposed boycott failed to get its resolution placed on the City Council’s agenda for its next scheduled meeting….
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Fast Forward ‘Incredible’ Teenage Girl Killed Crossing Suburban Boston Street With Best Friend
(JTA) — A synagogue, a Jewish summer camp and the wider Boston community are mourning two teenage best friends who died over the weekend after being struck by a car. Talia Newfield, 16, who is Jewish, and Adrienne Garrido, 17, were killed late Saturday afternoon while they were crossing a street near Needham High School,…
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Fast Forward Massachusetts, Rhode Island Change Election Dates To Avoid High Holidays
BOSTON (JTA) — Massachusetts and Rhode Island have changed their primary dates this year to avoid a conflict with the Jewish High Holidays. In Massachusetts, the secretary of state, William Galvin, announced Tuesday that the voting would be moved up to Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day and two weeks earlier than the original…
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Culture Harvard Professor Henry Rosovsky Honored For Helping Jewish Life Flourish
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) — When Henry Rosovsky first arrived at Harvard University in 1949, a newly minted graduate of the College of William and Mary, the young Jewish refugee could hardly have imagined that a building associated with the Harvard Jewish community would be named in his honor more than four decades later. Born in…
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Fast Forward Julian Edelman’s Children Book Gets A Jewish Makeover
BOSTON (JTA) — If New England Patriots star Julian Edelman retires from the NFL anytime soon, he could clearly have a promising second career as a Jewish children’s book writer. In front of about 400 children and their families Tuesday night at the Newton Centre flagship of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston, the…
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Fast Forward School Project To Remember Holocaust Victims Passes 11 Million Stamps
BOSTON (JTA) – A 9-year-old school project to commemorate Holocaust victims surpassed its unlikely goal to collect 11 million stamps – representing the lives of 6 million Jews and 5 million other victims of intolerance who perished. On Friday, the eve of Yom Kippur, a community volunteer for the Holocaust Stamp Project at the Foxborough Regional…
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News These Jewish Dreamers Are Frightened — But Determined To Fight Over DACA
(JTA) — At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.” At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he was 6 years old, when his Jewish family moved to South Florida from Caracas. His mother was a media executive and they traveled…
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