(JTA) — Massachusetts’ secretary of state is wrestling with when to schedule the state’s primary ahead of the November 2018 general election. The primary is usually held seven weeks before the general election. But for 2018 that would fall on September 18, or erev Yom Kippur. According to Massachusetts state law, a primary must be…
(JTA) — Three swastikas were drawn on a desk in the classroom of a Jewish teacher at a Boston-area high school — the third time in recent months that a swastika has been discovered there. The swastikas were discovered Tuesday at Andover High, located about 20 miles north of Boston, hours before the start of…
Israelis might be known for their athletic prowess, but when they talk about football, they usually mean what we call soccer. Yaniv Kovalski, a 23-year-old Israeli, might have a hand in changing that, as he arrives in the United States as the first college student from Israel to attend an American school on a football…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and other offensive graffiti were spray-painted on a wall near the harbor in Marblehead, Mass. A kayaker called local police on Friday evening after seeing the graffiti from the water. The graffiti included a Star of David and the letters IDF in circles with lines drawn through them, and the phrases “Bernie…
(JTA) — A Jewish Community Center in Massachusetts was evacuated after a bomb threat was found written on the wall of the men’s locker room. The Springfield Jewish Community Center was evacuated at about 3 p.m. on Friday. The city’s Arson and Bomb Squad, as well as police and firefighters, searched the building but did…
(JTA) — Unidentified perpetrators spray painted the words “kill Jews” and a white supremacist slogan on headstones at a cemetery in Cape Cod. Several headstones were knocked over at Oak Neck, a 5.5-acre graveyard that is the only active cemetery in the village of Hyannis, 70 miles southeast of Boston, Fox25 reported last week. Oak Neck is not…
As the November election fast approaches, Democrats and Republicans are in the usual arms race to raise campaign cash. But in a rare moment of across the aisle solidarity, Democrats led an online fundraiser to fix a North Carolina Republican Party office damaged by an explosion last week. “Even though we deeply, deeply, disagree with…
(JTA) — When Jeff Wang was applying to U.S. colleges more than two years ago from his home near Shanghai, Brandeis University was a top choice. Like many Chinese students now at Brandeis, he had discovered the university on Chinese Internet forums that touted the school’s academic rankings and its high faculty-to-student ratio. Wang noted…
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