FBI probing series of scares at Israeli offices
False alarms here, elsewhere
The Anthrax scare that shut down the Israeli Consulate of New England on Monday was one of many similar false alarms at Israeli offices in the United States and abroad early this week, according to FBI officials. Full Story
Meeting through murals
Diller Teen Fellows and other youth from the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston paired up with members of the Medford Boys and Girls Club to paint a pair of murals. They created a mural inspired by a bookworm on the doors of the learning center (above); and one inspired by sports and music by the game room. Full Story
Twisting MLK’s legacy
Earlier this month, a young Jewish boy won the Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Award for best high school prose. The contest, held by Carnegie Mellon University and sponsored by the school’s Office of the President, is said to “celebrate excellence in creative writing and the spirit of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.” Full Story
A covenant by which no Jew should abide
Two cases involving discrimination in Israel: one easy, one more difficult. Let’s start with the easy one: Full Story
Technion Society honors Greens
DEDHAM - Drs. Gertrude (Gitty) and Milton Green were honored by the American Technion Society with the Builder Award for their generous support of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Gitty Green was an internist, and Milton has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and worked for Polaroid for 30 years. Full Story
Sharansky to speak at Birnbaum Lecture
NEWTON - The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts is proud to announce that Natan Sharansky, the iconic symbol of the Soviet Jewry movement and current chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, will deliver the ninth annual Connie Spear Birnbaum Memorial Lecture. Full Story
Comic ‘Wife’: an Upper West Side story
Stage Review
Call Marjorie Taub an intellectual wannabe. The fictional Jewish heroine of the Broadway hit comedy “Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” is “hungry for meaning” in her affluent life on New York’s Upper West Side. Full Story
Savior of Sephardic songs
Unless you are a Sephardic Jew or have Sephardic family members or friends, your default about Jewish ethnic culture is almost certainly Ashkenazic/Eastern European. Everything from religious customs to music to language will have the flavor of Yiddishkeit. It is, indeed, a rich heritage. Full Story
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