This may have been your ancestors’ shul
A Boston couple leads 10-year effort to revive a lost chapter in Polish Jewish history
Imagine you’re traveling in the Polish- Lithuanian commonwealth several centuries ago and sought out a shul to celebrate Shabbos services.
You would likely have gone to one of the 200 wooden-framed synagogues that had been built in the area in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Today, none of them exist. The Nazis burned the last one some 70 years ago. Full Story
In sudden move, day school replaces its head
With less than two months left in the school year, Kehillah Schechter Academy has replaced its head of school.
Two teachers at the Norwood day school, Rabbi David Paskin and Dr. Nitzan Resnick, took over for Marc Medwed, who was in his first year as the school’s head. Medwed had succeeded Jane Taubenfeld Cohen, who founded the school 23 years ago. Full Story
Are you really listening?
Over the last couple of weeks the commentary pages have served as a battleground in the latest skirmish between J Street and, for lack of a better term, the people to the right of J Street. Full Story
American liberals just don’t get Israeli politics
I sraeli politics have been thrown into an uproar by the decision of the sinking Kadima Party and its leader Shaul Mofaz to throw in their lot with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Full Story
Kawesch meets Technion professor
WALTHAM - Lance Kawesch (left), an attorney whose son Reuven is studying mechanical engineering at Technion, met Professor Zalman Palmor (right) during a recent Technion Business Council meeting. Professor Palmor is a member of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and deputy vice president for academic affairs at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Full Story
Emeth honors Mildred Levitt
CHESTNUT HILL - Mildred Levitt, a life member of the Sisterhood of Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, was named the Sisterhood’s 2012 Woman of Distinction. She was honored in April at the Annual Conference of the North Atlantic Region of the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism and in May at Temple Emeth. Full Story
Seared with memories
In Newton exhibit, Shoah survivor grapples with her past
Haunted faces peeking out of darkened recesses. Charred surfaces edged in wrought-iron. Train tracks leading into infinity. Orange pink skies slipping through barbed wire. Full Story
New film fest head aims to broaden audience, media
Odds are that Amy Geller is watching a movie now, perhaps sitting before the 40-inch flat screen television at her Cambridge home. Full Story
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