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Jewish Women’s Organizing for Reproductive Rights

12/7/2023, 12:30 pm

Activists protest across the streets of New York City demanding reproductive rights.

Free

JBM Author Series With Jennifer Rosner

11/30/2023, 7:00 pm

Jewish Community Center of the North Shore, Marblehead

Jennifer Rosner (Photo: Elizabeth Solaka)

$20

History Course: Jewish Women in the Medieval World

Up Next: 11/2/2023, 12:00 pm

$36

A Talk With Ilan Stavans on Jewish Latin America

11/29/2023, 7:30 pm

Salem State University Marsh Hall, Petrowski Room 210, Salem

Ilan Stavans (Photo credit: Kevin Gutting)

Free

JBM Author Series With Steven Hartov

11/16/2023, 7:00 pm

Jewish Community Center of the North Shore, Marblehead

$20

Genocide Education: A Massachusetts Educators Forum

11/14/2023, 9:00 am

1 Snyder Dr, Wellesley

$25

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Yiddish Culture and The Jewish Labor Movement

Up Next: 10/23/2023, 6:00 pm

$70

“My Architect” Film Screening

11/12/2023, 11:00 am

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston

$18

Looming in the Shadows of Lodz

11/9/2023, 7:30 pm

Free

“Irena’s Vow” Film Screening

11/9/2023, 7:00 pm

West Newton Cinema, West Newton

$18

A Pogrom in Chicago: Antisemitism and the Limits of Liberalism in Post-War America

11/7/2023, 5:30 pm

Alumni Center at Columbus Place, Boston

Free

“Nachtland”: A Staged Reading

11/5/2023, 2:00 pm

Brandeis University Spingold Theater Center, Waltham

Free

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“Final Account” (Courtesy Focus Features)

9/27/2021 Top Pick

“Final Account” Shows How the Holocaust Gained Momentum

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

9/24/2021 Top Pick

Looking Back When Some Neighbors Were Nazis in Wartime Boston

“Nazis of Copley Square” is a searing examination of how a city played host to a group whose leading figures spoke favorably of Nazi Germany.

By David M. ShribmanFor The Boston Globe

Ben Foster as Harry Haft in “The Survivor” (Promotional still)

9/15/2021 Top Pick

Barry Levinson’s “The Survivor” Is Horrifying Yet Hopeful

By Reuben BaronFor JewishBoston

9/15/2021 Top Pick

“Where Is Anne Frank?” and “Charlotte” Animate Holocaust History

Two animated Holocaust biopics debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.

By Reuben BaronFor JewishBoston

The Japanese delegation at the 1968 Paralympics in Tel Aviv (Courtesy (Israel Sports Association for the Disabled)

8/19/2021 Top Pick

Jewish Ties to Paralympics Run Deep

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

Rachael Cerrotti (Photo: Meghan Dhaliwal)

8/19/2021 Top Pick

Rachael Cerrotti Delves Into Memory and Grief in New Memoir

A third-generation Holocaust survivor, Rachael Cerrotti finds redemption in her grandmother’s story of survival.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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