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Boston principal apologizes to Muslim, Arab students who felt 'unsafe' after Holocaust lesson

Jewish groups are condemning a Boston middle school principal after he apologized in an email for the impact of a mandatory Holocaust lesson on some students.

One school pupil, Teaghan Murtagh, wrote a letter to the Lexington Observer about Cole's order for her not to wear a T-shirt with the words "Save the bees. Plant more trees. Clean the seas. Punch Nazis."
 US-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS-VOTE-PROTEST Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march during a "No Votes for Genocide" rally organized by the Boston Coalition for Palestine ahead of the US general election in Boston on November 2, 2024

Somerville voters backed Israel boycott, Jewish groups say it is illegal

Making Parkinson's cure personal: TechBio co-founder Micha Breakstoneand developmental biologist Olivier Pourquie.

AI meets biology: How cellular intelligence is redefining stem cell therapy

 (ILLUSTRATIVE) Four thousand US dollars are counted out by a banker counting currency at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009.

Dozens charged in global insider trading scheme after making millions in illicit profits


Get ready, American cuisine: The Israelis are coming!

Israeli cuisine expands its footprint on the American food scene.

 Galit Grutman

Red Sox release minor leaguer after online attacks on Jewish executive

Chaim Bloom, who joined the Red Sox front office in 2019, is a Shabbat-observant Jewish day school graduate.

 Brett Netzer, left, has been released by the Boston Red Sox after an offensive social media tirade attacking team executive Chaim Bloom.

Boston area college in turmoil after string of antisemitic incidents

A string of antisemitic attacks in the Milton suburb south of Boston that started on Holocaust Remembrance Day has rocked the college town.

 Curry College logo as seen on campus in 1998.

Boston art museum will return 17th-century painting to heirs of its pre-WWII Jewish owner

The 1646 painting "View of Beverwijk" by Salomon van Ruysdael, will be auctioned in April and is expected to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000

Paintings are pictured during the opening of an exhibition featuring works by David Olere, a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp.

The trials that Hadassah's female founder faced explored in new book

The story of Henrietta Szold, a heroine to humanism, Zionism and equality, is in many ways the story of modern Jewish history leading up to and in the wake of the First and Second world wars.

 POSTAGE STAMP commemorating 100th anniversary of Henrietta Szold.

The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition

The Canadian province has been sending a Christmas tree to Boston as a measure of enduring gratitude for events that date back more than a century.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and his wife, Michal, pose in front of what is believed to be the biggest Christmas tree in the Middle East during their visit to Nazareth.

Israel Arbeiter, driver of Holocaust memory in Boston, dies at 96

A passionate advocate for Holocaust survivor justice and Holocaust education, Israel “Izzy” Arbeiter founded a Boston-based Holocaust memorial and organization for local survivors.

Remembrance candle

Man who attacked Boston rabbi to face hate crime charges

Khaled Awad, who stabbed Rabbi Noginski earlier this month, faces additional hate crime charges on top of several other charges.

Skyline of Boston. Picture was taken from a whale watching ferry that left from the aquarium dock. It is the Eastern side of the Boston peninsula.

Boston rabbi who survived stabbing attack says survival was a miracle

“If people want to see a miracle, they should look at me,” said the rabbi who was attacked outside the Jewish school.

Skyline of Boston. Picture was taken from a whale watching ferry that left from the aquarium dock. It is the Eastern side of the Boston peninsula.

Jewish roommate of Boston stabber took out restraining order against him

Khaled Awad, who stabbed a Chabad rabbi eight times, is described by friends as "violent" and "very anti-Semitic"

the Charles River in front of the skyline of Boston