Massachusetts
Fortunate mistake: Lottery player buys two matching tickets and walks away with $2 million
Paul Corcoran mistakenly purchased two tickets with the same numbers and walked away with double the winnings at astonishing odds.
Fire at Boston-area senior living facility kills at least nine
Brick reading ‘Free Palestine’ thrown through window of Boston-area kosher grocery store
Lone soldier saves life of Massachusetts doctor with stem cell donation
Judge cites Betar US in releasing Massachusetts student from immigration detention
Betar US has been linked to the arrest of Efe Ercelik, who punched a Jewish student and later faced ICE detention.
Sheba Medical Center will open a healthcare startup accelerator in Boston
The new accelerator will serve as a soft landing platform for Israeli and international startups looking to expand into the American healthcare market.
MIT conference cancels talk on PFLP terrorist after participants threaten to withdraw
Speakers at the conference reportedly withdrew over a lecture by activist Susan Abulhawa on "Following in the Footsteps of [PFLP spokesman] Ghassan Kanafani."
University of Massachusetts confirms that five international students’ visas were revoked
The university's chancellor said some students had their visas revoked over minor traffic incidents.
Jews at Tufts furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student, cautious to join protests
Jewish students at Tufts said that the arrest of a Turkish student was an issue of free speech.
Kitty Dukakis, dead at 88, was the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate
Kitty Dukakis, the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate, died at 88. She advocated for addiction recovery, Holocaust memory, and humanitarian causes.
Massachusetts regulators probe Robinhood over March Madness basketball betting
Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said he was concerned Robinhood was "linking a gambling event on a popular sports event that's especially popular to young people to a brokerage account."
How are Massachusetts schools failing Jewish students through bias? - opinion
As antisemitic lessons increase, who’s running K-12 education?
Massachusetts Teachers Association gives teachers antisemitic, BDS materials
Massachusetts lawmakers pressed the MTA over its failure to remove ‘virulently antisemitic’ content from its teaching resources.
Meet the fish detective who can decode your gefilte fish heritage
For decades, Wulf’s Fish has helped home cooks keep the gefilte fish tradition alive with expert guidance and premium seafood.
Want to stop smoking? $700 in rewards can really help, study says
“We wanted to find out if giving people rewards helps them to quit smoking in the long term," said Professor Caitlin Notley, lead author of the study from UEA’s Norwich Medical School.
