Local leaders abuzz about US-Israel rift
Question how blunder could have occurred
While Israel scrambles to control the damage from last week’s ill-timed announcement about new housing in East Jerusalem, local Jewish leaders are trying to figure out how the apparent blunder happened in the first place. Full Story
Arts center: We can live without a home
“When New Center for Arts and Culture opens its doors and lights up the night along the Rose Kennedy Greenway in about four years from now, the room to book is 1615 of the Boston Harbor Hotel which overlooks the site.”
So started a front page story in the Advocate on Dec. 2, 2004. Full Story
The New Center’s moveable feast
To paraphrase the famous line in “Field of Dreams” about a back yard baseball stadium: If you build it, they will come.
The New Center for Arts and Culture has discovered – some might say belatedly – that you don’t have to build anything, and they will come. Full Story
Shaloh teachers, kids trade places
BRIGHTON – What is it really like to be a teacher? During a “Teacher for Day” program at Shaloh House Jewish Day School, students in grades 4-6 had a chance to find out. Teachers took their seats in childsize chairs as youngsters stood before the class to deliver lessons they had prepared. Full Story
Technion VP dines with alumni
NEWTON – Alumni and friends dined with Professor Aviv Rosen, senior vice president of American Society for Technion. Full Story
Chorus taps temple’s talent
It’s a family affair. Or, rather, a congregational affair. When Polymnia Choral Society performs “Words of Wisdom and Love” this Sunday, several members of Temple Beth Shalom in Melrose will be involved, as singers, accompanists and composers. In a sense, they are Jewish music ambassadors. Full Story
A half century later, Yarrow is still singing for the kids
The young Israeli woman at the West Bank border crossing didn’t know what to make of the balding, bearded man with the guitar case. She was suspicious and scared.
But then Peter Yarrow of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary opened the case, took out his guitar and began singing “Erev Shel Shoshanim,” the beloved Hebrew folk song. Full Story
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