(JTA) — A group of teenage yeshiva boys saved a man from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston. The man they saved, it turned out, has a tattoo of a Nazi swastika on his hand. The incident occurred last week, NBC10 Boston reported. The teens, who study at a yeshiva high school in…
BOSTON (JTA) — A fire outside the suburban Boston home of a rabbi that serves at a Chabad center is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Police in Arlington, Massachusetts, have asked for the public’s help in identifying a person caught on a neighbor’s video camera walking away from the home Saturday night around…
Wynn Resorts executives knew about and tried to hide allegations of sexual misconduct against Steve Wynn, the company’s founder, New York Daily News reported. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission released on Tuesday its investigation into whether the company was concealing information about Wynn when it applied for a license in 2014. Wynn, who is Jewish, resigned…
Join Forward CEO and Publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen in West Springfield, Massachusetts, as she is interviewed by writer and fundraising adviser Lou Cove about the changes at the Forward. At the closed event at PJ Library, Rachel will speak to a group of Jewish Federation and JCC leadership from across the United States and Canada….
BOSTON (JTA) – Two New England police departments withdrew from a security seminar in Israel last week following a public backlash from pro-Palestinian activists. Members of the groups Vermonters for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace are claiming the withdrawals in two liberal redoubts as a significant victory in their efforts to foil…
(JTA) — A Cambridge, Massachusetts man faces hate crime charges after he allegedly attacked a senior citizen woman while shouting anti-Semitic statements. Jarrett Harris, 62, was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault and battery on someone age 60 or older, and assault and battery with intent to intimidate, a hate crimes charge. The victim,…
Newton, Massachusetts is one of the most Jewish cities in the United States, with Jews making up between 20-30% of the Boston suburb’s population. Newton is so Jewish that there’s a part of town with three synagogues in a one-block radius. Newton is so Jewish that its Jewish population is not only mentioned on its…
A “takeover.” An “underhanded effort.” An “elaborate and deceptive scheme” that was “more in keeping with a mini-dictatorship than a religious organization founded upon democratic principles.” This is how a judge described the clandestine cooperation of the board members of a small Massachusetts synagogue, Adath Sharon, with the leadership of a local Chabad chapter. In…
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