Penny Schwartz
By Penny Schwartz
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Fast Forward At Tufts, a student campaign urges peers not to join pro-Israel groups — even liberal ones
BOSTON (JTA) – University student-led campaigns to boycott Israel are not an uncommon sight, but a new student movement at Tufts University is taking a form rarely seen before in similar campus boycott efforts. Tufts’ Students for Justice in Palestine chapter this week called for a strategic boycott against Israel, asking students to sign the…
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Fast Forward Boston area college in turmoil after weeks-long string of antisemitic and racist incidents
BOSTON (JTA) — For nearly a month, a small liberal arts college just miles outside of Boston has been roiled by a spate of hate incidents, including antisemitic graffiti and threatening racist language, prompting the school to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved. The incidents at…
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Fast Forward ‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author wins Sydney Taylor Book Award for lifetime achievement in Jewish children’s literature
(JTA) – Jane Yolen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s book author whose oeuvre of more than 400 books includes the bestselling Holocaust time-travel novel “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” was honored for her writing career by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Yolen received the Body-of-Work award from this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Awards, which recognize excellence in…
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Fast Forward The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition
BOSTON (JTA) – On an unseasonably warm December night earlier this month, some 12,000 people flocked to Boston Common for the lighting of the city’s official Christmas tree: a majestic, 48-foot white spruce. The event marked the 50th straight year that the people of Nova Scotia supplied Boston’s tree — a tribute to how the…
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Fast Forward Following high-profile antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts lawmakers vote to require genocide education in high schools
BOSTON (JTA) – Against a backdrop of disturbing revelations of antisemitic incidents, including many in local schools, Massachusetts lawmakers this week approved a bill that will require genocide education in all public secondary schools. “An Act Concerning Genocide Education,” which also establishes a public-private trust fund to support curriculum development and training for educators, is…
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Fast Forward ‘Fiddler’ meets ‘The Sopranos’: A gritty, forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem is published in English for the first time
(JTA) — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough and tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered work of fiction by Sholom Aleichem. The recent publication of “Moshkele the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel” (Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press), translated from the…
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Fast Forward Boston Jews rally together after streak of attacks in the area
BOSTON (JTA) – Days after a series of violent acts stunned Greater Boston and threatened its Jewish community, residents are jolted but resolute, vowing to continue taking pride in their Jewish identity. The latest incident occurred on Thursday, when Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed eight times outside of Shaloh House, a Jewish school and…
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Fast Forward Bella Granek, 89, Holocaust survivor who was great with kids
(JTA) — Bella Granek had a magical touch with babies and young children. When her twin grandchildren were infants, she was often by her daughter’s side lending a hand in their care and knowing just how to get them to sleep. Granek’s many grandchildren delighted in their visits to her home in Lakewood, New Jersey,…
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