Massachusetts

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

A copy of Say It In Yiddish.
US President Donald Trump speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, March 26, 2026.

Sword-wielding Massachusetts man arrested over threats to Trump, FBI says

KASH PATEL is applauded by his partner Alexis Wilkins after being sworn in as FBI director by US Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, DC, US, February 21, 2025.

FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend receives threatening email, Massachusetts man arrested

An empty classroom

Boston-area Jewish day school to close after 25 years, saying its model is ‘no longer sustainable’


Support for Ukraine on display in small northeastern US towns

On a road trip from Maine to Connecticut, widespread backing of Ukraine could be seen in the form of flags and signs.

 Support for Ukraine in Concord, Massachusetts.

'New York Jew' has 1983 arson conviction overturned due to antisemitism

“The credible evidence of antisemitic juror statements undermine the fairness of this verdict and denied Mr. Jacobson his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury trial.”

 Barry Jacobson, second from left in this undated photo, was convicted of setting fire to his Massachusetts vacation home in 1983. His conviction was overturned in 2022.

Former 'Stop & Shop' Chairman Avram Goldberg dies at 92

Avram Golberg, who ran the regional Stop and Shop supermarket chain with his wife from 1985 to 1989, passed away on Sunday ate age 92.

 Avram Goldberg and his wife Carol Goldberg led the regional supermarket chain Stop & Shop for years.

New Israeli-American summer camp opening in the Berkshires

A new Camp Kimama called "Half Moon" will open this summer in the Berkshires, Massachusetts.  

 Summer Camp Kimama Half Moon

Boston suburb apologizes for using Christian menorah in holiday display

The image is widely available online as an illustration of Messianic interpretations of the menorah.

 A picture of a menorah intended to explain the object's symbolism was actually a Messianic image in which the menorah's branches were described as symbolizing the "cross" and "resurrection."

Massachusetts lawmakers mandate genocide education in high schools

Following a slew of high-profile antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts lawmakers voted to require genocide education in high schools.

Massachusetts state flag in front of the gilded dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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.

 Memorial Candles

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.

Grilled hot dogs with vegetables, ketchup and mustard (illustration)

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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