9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (130+ words) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) " Servicio de rescate informa de cuatro muertos en ataque en el centro de Israel. City of Boston payroll tops $2.45B, with 30-plus police locking up $400,000+ [Scan entire database] Stefon Diggs, A.J. Brown and free-agent targets: Inside the Patriots…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (406+ words) Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights that begins Sunday night, is a relatively minor holiday that has gained prominence due to its proximity to Christmas each year. It's associated with fun: Fried foods such as doughnuts and potato pancakes,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (476+ words) Hanukkah " also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew " is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah " a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication....

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (336+ words) By Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Bianna Golodryga, a news anchor for CNN International, immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1980 with her family to escape antisemitism. Now a parent of two children, the onetime political refugee finds…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (467+ words) For today's opening of the 37th Boston Jewish Film Festival. Artistic Director Joey Katz has spent the past year viewing, booking and refining the films, docs and events that make it all work year after year. "This year," Katz began, "our…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1167+ words) By DAVID CRARY, PETER SMITH and TIFFANY STANLEY, Associated Press Every week hundreds of millions of people around the world gather to worship in peace. But for some, there comes a day when deadly violence invades their sacred spaces and…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (944+ words) An Israeli soldier salutes during a two minutes of silence as air raid sirens sound marking the Israel's annual Memorial Day, at the site of Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (189+ words) Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening. "The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram's horn, for thousands of years in celebration…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (948+ words) For Jewish congregations across the United States, the upcoming High Holy Days " always a compelling mix of celebration and repentance " will be more charged than usual this year. Rabbis say many of their congregants are worried by a surge of…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (563+ words) Gov. Maura Healey is no doubt hopeful when she claims that there is no room for antisemitism in Massachusetts. But there appears to be plenty of room for such hate in the public school system. That, at least, is the…...