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Immigrants arriving in New York in 1902 (Photo: United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division)

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New York Jews in the Immigrant City 1880-1924

10/17/2021, 1:30 pm

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Speaker Series: Pam Jenoff and Ron Balson

10/14/2021, 7:00 pm

Close Up Of German Military Ammunition Of A German Soldier. Unidentified Re-enactors Dressed As World War II German Soldiers Standing Order. Photo In Black And White Colors. Soldiers Holding Weapon Rifles

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Unearthing Family Histories With Boston Authors Judy Bolton-Fasman and Helen Fremont

10/13/2021, 7:00 pm

Genealogy family history theme with old family photos and documents.

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Messy Monotheism: The Crowded Cosmos of Ancient Jews and Christians

10/12/2021, 5:00 pm

Boston College- Yawkey Centre, Boston

Paula Fredriksen

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Henrietta Szold, Judah Magnes and the “Hebrew Orient”

10/12/2021, 12:00 pm

Great Synagogue of Rishon LeZion (Courtesy photo: Museum of Rishon LeZion)

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Izzy Arbeiter speaks at the New England Holocaust Memorial rededication on June 8, 2018 (Photo: Craig Byer/CJP)

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Voices From the Past, Lessons for the Future: A Promise Kept – Honoring the Enduring Impact of Israel “Izzy” Arbeiter

10/6/2021, 7:00 pm

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Jesper Svartvik: “Good Friday or Bad Friday”

10/6/2021, 12:00 pm

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Israeli Oranges: Secular Jewish Hour in Russian

10/5/2021, 8:00 pm

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Babi Yar 80th Anniversary Commemoration

10/3/2021, 2:00 pm

384 Harvard St, Brookline

(Photo: Jennifer Boyer/Flickr)

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Beginners Workshop on Jewish Genealogy

10/3/2021, 10:00 am

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Survivors of Auschwitz returned to the camp in January 2017, on the 72nd anniversary of its liberation. In a recent survey, 41 percent of American adults did not know what Auschwitz was. Credit Agencja Gazeta/Reuters

4/12/2018 Top Pick

Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds

Thirty-one percent of respondents believed that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and 41 percent didn’t know what Auschwitz was.

By The New York Times

(Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr)

4/12/2018 Top Pick

The Start-Up Nation Remembers, Israel Innovation Repairs

Israel’s innovators are the great-grandchildren, family and descendants of Holocaust victims, redeeming their ancestors through tech-un olam.

By Rabbi Baruch HaLevi

Volunteer Sarah Mizrachi, Holocaust survivor Irene Hizme and The Blue Card executive director Masha Pearl, from left (Courtesy The Blue Card)

4/12/2018 Top Pick

What Holocaust Survivors Need Now

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

(Photo: gorsh13/iStock)

4/11/2018 Top Pick

Celebrating 70 Years of Israel

A conversation with Miri Eisin on war, peace, holidays and Kardashians.

By Dan SeligsonFor israel360

Hélène Diamant (Courtesy Emilia Diamant)

4/11/2018 Top Pick

Remembering My Grandmother

My grandparents’ experience helped shape my activism today.

By Emilia Diamant

(KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE/FILE)

4/2/2018 Top Pick

Passover and the Secret of Jewish Longevity

In March 1946, David Ben Gurion appeared before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, a panel convened to study conditions in British Mandatory Palestine.

By The Boston Globe

Temple Israel in Sharon will host an April 11 service for Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for Jews who died during the Holocaust (GLOBE FILE 2014)

4/2/2018 Top Pick

Holocaust Service to Hear Tales of Resistance

Ten synagogues in the area will cosponsor the Temple Israel service on Yom HaShoah, which is April 11 this year but varies year-to-year depending on the Hebrew calendar.

By The Boston Globe

Immigrants having lunch at Ellis Island just before the First World War. Ellis Island received as many as 790,000 immigrants at this time. (ASSOCIATED PRESS/WIDE WORLD)

4/2/2018 Top Pick

Befriending the Stranger

As the snow melts and the days grow longer, this is—or should be—the season of welcoming the stranger.

By The Boston Globe

(Photo: querbeet/iStock)

3/26/2018 Top Pick

A Jewish Revival in Poland in the Shadow of Controversial Legislation

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

(Courtesy photo)

3/26/2018 Top Pick

New Documentary Tells the Story of Ankara’s Jews

Turkish documentarian and archeologist Enver Arcak has directed an award-winning film of the history of Ankara’s Jews.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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