Massachusetts

Somerville councilors, solicitor delay final action on Israel divestment proposal

Deputy Director of Communications Grace Munns wrote in an email that the mayor “is closely following the City Council process, and... would do a thorough review with staff of the legislation.”

A placard reading "Free Palestine, Boycott Israel" is held up among protesters carrying Palestinian flags at Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands on August 21, 2025.
Demonstrators hold BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) lettering calling for action against Israel during the "No Weapons For Israel" march to Leipzig/Halle Airport in protest against German arms deliveries to Israel.

Somerville, Massachusetts city council moves to enact Israel divestment vote

Pro-Israel activists hold signs highlighting the October 7 Hamas attacks during an Israeli American Council (IAC) protest against screenings of the documentary NAZA in the US.

Israeli American Council leads nationwide protests against controversial Gaza documentary 'NAZA'

A pro-Palestinian protest encampment is re-occupied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,US, May 6, 2024.

Kalaniyot faculty network strengthens campus ties to Israeli scholars, fights academic boycotts


Aaron Feuerstein, the 'Mensch of Malden Mills,' dies at age 95

The devout Orthodox businessman famously kept paying his factory's 1,400 employees after the factory itself was closed down in a brutal fire.

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Meet the Jewish mustard maven who founded a museum

“Mustard is in almost every religion and every culture,” said Barry Levenson, the founder, curator and CMO (chief mustard officer) of the National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin.

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CDC says delta variant more vaccine-resistant than previously thought

Vaccinated people had a similar amount of virus presence as the unvaccinated, suggesting that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant could transmit the virus.

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with the Coronavirus, in Modi'in, on July 21, 2021.

Massachusetts school board member resigns after using antisemitic slur

Bob Hoey, a member of the Lowell School Committee, was on a local talk show Wednesday morning when he referred to a Jewish former official as a “kike.”

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School board member in Massachusetts called someone a ‘kike’ on live TV

"We lost the kike, oh, I mean, the Jewish guy,” Hoey said Wednesday morning on “City Life,” a news opinion show. “I hate to say it, but that’s what people used to say behind his back.”

American white nationalists march at the University of Virginia ahead of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. In Charlottesville, antisemitic marchers shouted, 'Jews won’t replace us'

Anti-vaxxer rabbi fired by Chabad over social media posts

“It became clear that dismissal was our only choice,” said Rabbi Mendel Fogelman, director of the Central Massachusetts Chabad.

CHABAD’S ‘REDEMPTIVE scenario has a “tremendous energy” which explains “the amount of sacrifice these people are willing to make”’: A man foists the Chabad flag on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road on April 20.

US charges MIT professor with grant fraud over hidden Chinese ties

The Justice Department is cracking down on Chinese influence within universities amid concerns about spying and intellectual property theft by the Chinese government.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is seen on an embankment of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., November 21, 2018. Picture taken November 21, 2018. To match Exclusive USA-CHINA/STUDENTS REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Israel Horovitz, playwright who was accused of sexual assault, dies at 81

Horovitz wrote more than 70 plays and was the founding artistic director of Gloucester Stage in Massachusetts.

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Investigational drug proven to prolong survival of ALS patients - study

The median overall survival for all CENTAUR study participants being administered AMX0035 was 6.5 months longer than the group originally randomized to placebo.

Prof. Boaz Lerner of Ben-Gurion University uses a new platform for predicting ALS disease progression

Trial date set for alleged attempted arson of MA Jewish nursing home

Prosecutors recently found new evidence for the case that demands investigating, and a tentative trial date has been set for November.

Ruth's House assisted living in Longmeadow, MA