After virtually tying with Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Iowa Democratic caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $3 million in a 24-hour period, a record for the insurgent presidential candidate. Sanders, I-Vt., who has abjured raising money from major givers, scored the amount from small donations online in the 24 hours after Monday’s vote, The Associated…
HOOKSETT, N.H. — They abhor Donald Trump, by and large, as a demagogue. And as primary day nears, many feel conflicted in sorting out their feelings about Bernie Sanders’s single-minded assault on widespread inequality, and Hillary Clinton’s record on a wider range of issues that have drawn their support. With only 10,000 Jews making up…
I have traveled to Cornish, New Hampshire, with the intention of buying J.D. Salinger’s house. Last year, when the house went on the market, it was listed for $679,000, but now Jane Darrach, the real estate agent for the property, has told me the price has dropped to “585-ish.” It seems like a lot of…
10,120 Jews live in New Hampshire. In the late 19th century, Abraham and Rachel Isaac founded what was reported New Hampshire’s first Jewish business, which was called “The Cheap Shop.” New Hampshire’s oldest synagogue is Temple Adath Yeshurun of Manchester, founded in 1891. Poet Maxine Kumin lived on a farm in the town of Warner….
Thinkstock What’s better than winning $1,000? Winning $1,000 while smelling bacon. At least, that’s what New Hampshire wants you to think. According to The New York Post, the state lottery has launched a special “scratch and sniff ‘I Heart Bacon’ ticket” this month. Players “will think it’s time for Saturday morning breakfast,” Lottery Commission Executive…
A New Hampshire man was properly charged with a hate crime for threatening two Walmart employees with anti-Semitic statements, the state’s Supreme Court ruled. On Friday, the New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Paul Costella on two counts of criminal threatening in the 2010 incident. He was sentenced last year to 12 months…
An almost century-old mikveh was unearthed by archeologists this week in the remains of a New Hampshire home. The ritual bath it was found in a ten-acre outdoor history museum called Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, which preserves a neighborhood dating back to the 1600s, according to the Archeology Institute of America The neighborhood was inhabited…
A federal board has changed the name of a pond in a small New Hampshire town from Jew Pond to Carleton Pond. The name change by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names comes six months after Mont Vernon residents voted for the name change, which honors one of the town’s founding families. The move to…
