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Holocaust Symposium for Teens

Up Next: 3/2/2022, 7:00 pm

NEHM

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“Complicit” Film Screening With Q&A

4/5/2022, 7:00 pm

“Complicit” (Promotional still)

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Sanborn Insurance Maps: An Unexpected Tool

4/3/2022, 1:30 pm

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$5

From left: Rachel Linsky, Gabriela Amy-Moreno and Khristopher Henry in “The Schulhoff Collaboration” by Rachel Linsky (Photo: Nicole Volpe)

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“Schulhoff” Dance & Live Music Performance Premiere

4/2/2022, 2:00 pm

The W Gallery, Wayland

$15

Priesand-Sally

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Online History Course: Women in the Rabbinate

Up Next: 3/2/2022, 8:00 pm

$36

“Game Changers” Film Screening

Up Next: 3/24/2022

“Game Changers” by Noam Sobovitz (Promotional still)

$15

The Ritchie Boys: How Jewish Refugees Helped Win World War II

3/27/2022, 10:00 am

RitchieBoys

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American Antisemitism in Historical Perspective

3/24/2022, 7:00 pm

Jonathan Sarna has “done it all” at Brandeis, the university’s president says. (Uriel Heilman)

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Land, Nation and Individual Rights in Israel

3/24/2022, 12:15 pm

Maham Ayaz

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REFERRAL: COBHAM, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Alvaro Morata and Cesar Azpilicueta of Chelsea backs the Say No To Antisemitism campaign at Chelsea Training Ground on January 12, 2018 in Cobham, England. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

4/18/2019 Top Pick

Chelsea and U.S. Soccer Team to March From Auschwitz to Birkenau Concentration Camp Sites

Two professional soccer teams—one in England and one in the United States—will send a joint delegation to the March of the Living.

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The original Broadway cast of “God of Vengeance” (Courtesy photo)

4/15/2019 Top Pick

“God of Vengeance” Challenges Modern Theater Audiences

In anticipation of Paula Vogel’s play “Indecent” at the Huntington Theatre, the Jewish Arts Collaborative presented a staged reading of her inspiration: Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance.”

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

Eduardo Halfon (Courtesy photo: Paula Morales)

4/9/2019 Top Pick

Novelist Eduardo Halfon Wins Edward Lewis Wallant Award

Latino Jewish author Eduardo Halfon is honored with a Jewish literary prize for his lyrical, evocative novel “Mourning.”

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

Ruth Behar (Courtesy photo)

4/2/2019 Top Pick

Next Year in Havana: Ruth Behar’s Treasures From a Cuban Jewish Exile

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

REFERRAL: A German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz, was uncovered in New York Sunday. (RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

4/1/2019 Top Pick

German Train Car Arrives in New York for Auschwitz Exhibit

The New York exhibit opens May 8, the day in 1945 when Germany surrendered and the camps were liberated.

By The Boston Globe

(Courtesy Koolulam)

3/28/2019 Top Pick

Shoah Survivors and Descendants Sing Together in Jerusalem

Six-hundred Holocaust survivors and their families gathered to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in a unique and moving way.

By JewishBoston

Jacob Dinezon’s dramatic Yiddish romance novel “The Dark Young Man” was a surprise success in 1877. (Courtesy of the Jewish Storyteller Press)

3/26/2019 Top Pick

This Yiddish Romance Novel Was a Smash Hit in 1877

Hot off the Jewish press in Vilna in 1877, a dramatic Yiddish romance novel became a surprising success, selling out its first 10,000 copies in Jewish communities across Poland...

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Josh Harlow (Courtesy photo)

3/26/2019 Top Pick

Josh Harlow Brings Traditional Passover Melodies to New Generation

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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