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Boston federation hired private investigator to look into critics

CJP official acknowledges seeking information about lawyer and employees who criticized group

By Arno Rosenfeld Jul 18, 2022 | 6 min read
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Citing implicit call for violence, BDS movement disavows Boston map

The BDS National Committee, which controls the movement, disavowed the Mapping Project

By Arno Rosenfeld Jun 23, 2022 | 3 min read
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‘Against a wall’: Boston’s Jewish leftists conflicted by BDS map

Some progressive activists say they have concerns about the map, but don’t want to play into a conservative narrative

By Arno Rosenfeld Jun 21, 2022 | 7 min read
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FBI looking into ‘The Mapping Project,’ pro-Palestinian site targeting ‘Zionist leaders’ in Boston

Politicians and Jewish groups have condemned the anonymous website as a roadmap for antisemitic attacks

By Forward Staff Jun 14, 2022 | 2 min read
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Massachusetts Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley, condemn pro-Palestinian project mapping Boston Jewish groups

Members of Congress, including one critical of Israel, speak out against the project’s goal of mapping “Zionist leaders”

By Andrew Lapin Jun 10, 2022 | 3 min read
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Boston is getting a Holocaust museum, thanks to a couple with a passion for Holocaust education

(JTA) — A new Boston-based foundation dedicated to Holocaust memory plans to build the city’s first Holocaust museum. The Holocaust Legacy Foundation, which couple Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman founded after a 2018 March of the Living trip to Auschwitz, announced Thursday that it had purchased a 15,000-square-foot building near Boston Common, on the city’s…

By Andrew Lapin Apr 12, 2022 | 2 min read
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What a Jewish editor can learn answering letters to Santa

Here’s what they don’t tell you about being Santa Claus: it can be heart-wrenching. Every year, the Boston Globe receives as many as 17,000-plus letters addressed to Santa Claus. This year, the paper put me, a Jewish journalist who was a reporter and editor there for 36 years, in charge of writing about them. “How…

By Linda Matchan Dec 22, 2021 | 5 min read
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Remembering Izzy Arbeiter, the Holocaust survivor honored by Germany

If ever there was someone who had cause to be embittered, it would be Izzy Arbeiter, who died Friday at the age of 96. He was 14 when the German occupied his town in Plock, Poland in 1939. Soon came the ghettos, then the torturous goodbye to his parents and little brother who would be…

By Linda Matchan Nov 2, 2021 | 3 min read

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