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BOSTON -- In something of a history-making feat, the American Jewish Historical Society has succeeded in bringing to Boston an exhibit chronicling the American Jewish experience in this country: 'From [...]

The goddess first entered Elizabeth Stahl's life through a necklace when she was 20 years old. Raised in a Swampscott home where Jewish culture was central to her life, the [...]

A new music-centered congregation in Newton is set to open Labor Day weekend with Charles Osborne at its helm, the cantor who left Temple Emanuel--one of Newton's largest Conservative congregations--in [...]

A new program for Orthodox Jewish students is set to appear at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in August, making the school--which has seen a rapid growth in applications [...]

After two years of intense lobbying from the Jewish community--both locally and nationally--the Presbyterian Church appears to be retreating from its 2004 divestment policy, saying on Sunday, 'We are grieved [...]

Martha and Waitstill Sharp, a Wellesley couple responsible for saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis, were finally recognized for their work as they were posthumously inducted into Yad Vashem's [...]

Brandeis University held its annual commencement ceremony on Sunday, presenting an honorary doctorate to playwright Tony Kushner amidst cheers and boos after some members of the Jewish community asked the [...]

Walk past a blue fence with Jewish stars, past a sign proclaiming 'Grand Opening' and you'll enter the latest restaurant to offer kosher cuisine to residents of Greater Boston. Taam [...]

Brandeis University's decision to honor playwright Tony Kushner at its May 21 commencement ceremony has caused concern among local Jewish leaders, with some calling for Brandeis to rescind the invitation [...]

Warning of an overall rise in anti-Semitic incidents over the last two years, the Anti-Defamation League released its annual national audit of anti-Semitism on Wednesday, reporting only a slight decrease [...]

Only a few weeks prior to giving birth, many Jewish women have been taking a dip in the mikveh to prepare spiritually and emotionally for the next phase in their [...]

Temple Israel of Boston is being hailed as a national model for social justice, as the Union for Reform Judaism announced last week that a new social action initiative in [...]

After the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections on Jan. 25, Boston's Jewish community has been mostly united over its insistence that Israel, the United States and the world [...]

A Brandeis professor has come under fire this week for alleged ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, bringing the university under intense scrutiny from the Jewish community. Khalil Shikaki, a prominent [...]

As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lays in stable but critical condition following last Wednesday's massive stroke, the future of Israel and the Kadima party have become the widespread subject [...]

Three juveniles were arrested last week by Swampscott police, ending a two-month search for the perpetrators behind two anti-Semitic incidents at the Lubavitch synagogue of the North Shore. The youths [...]

In a hearing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights on Nov. 18 regarding anti-Semitic harassment on college campuses, the University of Massachusetts was named as a perpetrator of [...]

Whether they dated a non-Jew, ate a bacon cheeseburger or bought a Volkswagen, many Jewish women are familiar with the concept of guilt. In fact, in popular culture especially, guilt [...]

Local Chabad rabbis are meeting resistance from town officials over displaying menorahs and holding candlelighting ceremonies on public property this Chanukah season. Shrewsbury town selectmen originally refused a request from [...]

BOSTON -- The American Jewish Committee and the Russian Jewish community finally resolved their public disagreement last week, with calls for the resignation of AJC executive director Larry Lowenthal being [...]

SWAMPSCOTT -- A Swampscott synagogue has pledged to revamp its security after vandals broke into the building and scrawled obscene anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls, only days before Rosh Hashanah. [...]

WALTHAM -- When people hear that the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute has created a wall calendar featuring Jewish female athletes, the most popular response has been: 'How did you find enough women [...]

Chanukah provides a unique opportunity to host a party that veers from tradition. Unlike other Jewish holidays such as Passover or Rosh Hashanah, there is no set of rules or [...]

My boyfriend loves technology. In some ways, that makes my search for the perfect Chanukah present easy, since I know that all I have to do is buy him the [...]

Rabbi Yair Altshuler is one of the newest faculty members at the Maimonides School. The new principal for the middle and high school moved from Alon Shevut, Israel, to accept [...]

When Rotem Sehayek came to Brandeis University this summer to study the way that Israeli women protest the actions of their government, she believed that her country was coming close [...]

Mickey Schneider knows luxury. With more than 20 years of experience in the hotel industry, Schneider left his position as the general manager of the Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel and [...]

Meir Shlomo, the Israeli Consul General to New England, is leaving his post after four years. Although Shlomo was scheduled to leave Boston for Israel earlier this month, his stay [...]

In an attempt to stem a teacher shortage crisis that is affecting Jewish day schools across the country, Brandeis University's Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education created the Day [...]

As the battle between Israel and Hezbollah escalated recently, nearly 400 American physicians stood at the ready to deploy to Israel to work in understaffed hospitals. While the likelihood that [...]

A new exhibition at Boston's Museum of Science using dead bodies to teach about human anatomy has caused a stir with a Jewish man leading the charge, saying it 'shows [...]

Although the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claim's Conference) criticized many American museums last week for being uncooperative in responding to a survey on Nazi-era stolen art, the [...]

The Russian Jewish community in Greater Boston has been raising funds independently from the rest of the Jewish community in an effort to dispel stereotypes that their community does not [...]

Despite a series of controversies at Brandeis University, development officials announced last week that the university has set a fund-raising record this year, bringing in an all-time high of more [...]

Steven Greenberg believes that history is best told by those who lived it. As the executive director of the Boston Center for Jewish Heritage, he now has the chance to [...]

A group protesting Israel's incursion into Gaza in front of the Israeli Consulate to New England--including Boston's Episcopal Bishop M. Thomas Shaw--were greeted by an almost equal number of pro-Israel [...]

Judaic studies as an academic discipline is available on every college campus of note in the United States. However, while students can take classes on everything from medieval Jewish philosophy [...]

In a high but soft voice, Rabbi Paul Levenson sings a haunting melody to the 'MiShebarach,' a Jewish prayer for the sick. His voice has comforted both young and old [...]

Due to a tremendous growth spurt over the last few years, GesherCity Boston, a Jewish networking organization for young adults, recently announced that a similar young adult organization, Jewish InterAction, [...]

Over 150 politicians, clergy, and community leaders along with union workers, teachers and children boarded a plane to Washington, D.C. for a one-day trip to visit the United States Holocaust [...]

Despite the comparatively high Jewish fertility rate in Israel, policy experts are saying that Israeli families are having fewer children than they would like because of inefficient government policies. This [...]

When Dennis Kanin first learned that Jews cannot be silent in the face of bigotry, he was only a boy. As a student at the prestigious Roxbury Latin School, he [...]

When Franklin Simon returned from World War II after fighting as a member in the 2nd Ranger Infantry Battalion, his boss at the time responded with surprise that a Jewish [...]

The idea to start an Israeli baseball league--which has been gaining steam in recent months and plans to have its first game in the summer of 2007--began locally, as Brookline [...]

Although she isn't old enough to drive, Anna Finkelstein of Sharon has directed a local production of Paul Zindel's Pulitzerprize winning play, 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.' [...]

In the 1970s, as feminism was being integrated into Judaism, Dr. Lori Hope Lefkowitz of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College predicted that of all the Jewish rituals to be eradicated from [...]

The Armenian genocide might not seem like a Jewish issue, but it should be according to Armenian filmmaker David Davidian, who has submitted a DVD on the genocide to the [...]

Love can happen at any age. That is something Sylvia Glickman learned when, at the age of 81, she fell in love and married for the first time. She met [...]

Fifth and sixth graders at the Ecole Internationale de Boston--a French immersion school in Cambridge--got a lesson in the ability of friendship to overcome intolerance through an essay contest organized [...]

In 1930s' Boston, Jews walked past the houses of their Catholic neighbors with trepidation, fearing attacks from ruffians who called them 'Christkillers.' In 2006, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley addressed the [...]