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4/22/2025 Top Pick

ADL Reports Slight Increase in Antisemitic Events in New England Last Year Following Surge in 2023

Antisemitic incidents continued to occur at record numbers in New England last year, following a dramatic spike in 2023 in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

By Nick StoicoFor The Boston Globe

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4/22/2025 Top Pick

Israel at 77: A Nation in Waiting

By Noam BentovFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

Hanno Lans Joods Historisch Museum Prikkeldraadversperring op de Bushuissluis over de Kloveniersburgwal. Op de achtergrond de Nieuwe Hoogstraat.

4/17/2025 Top Pick

“Hiding in Holland” Tells a Holocaust Story in Two Voices

Scholar Shulamit Reinharz and her father, Max Rothschild, share a haunting, dual memoir of love, survival and defiance in Nazi-occupied Holland.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

ADI Make the Change Challenge grand prize winners Charlie Sobelman and Alice Dunn Epstein Hillel School

4/16/2025 Top Pick

Bright Ideas and Big Hearts: Local Students Win Grand STEM Prize

Two sixth graders from Epstein Hillel School designed a playful, practical solution for kids with feeding tubes—and took home the top prize.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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4/16/2025 Top Pick

Rabbi Friedman’s Joyful Anthem for Climate Action

On April 27 in Roslindale, meet the local rabbi and activist whose new picture book turns climate grief into collective hope—through music, community and Jewish values.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

Doni Zasloff, right, and Eric Lindberg at The Parlor Room in “We Sing Nonetheless” (Courtesy: Raffi Roy/Upstander Project)

4/16/2025 Top Pick

“We Sing Nonetheless” – A Jewish Bluegrass Journey Across America

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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4/16/2025 Top Pick

Retirees Rebuild What Terror Tried To Destroy

By Dan SeligsonFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

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4/11/2025 Top Pick

Eat This: A Guide To Jewish Bites Around Boston

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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4/10/2025 Top Pick

A Resource for Passover and Beyond

Beta version of a blessing builder on Ma’yan Tikvah.

By Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope

Brooke Baevsky, left, and Noa Tishby (Photo: Eighteen)

4/10/2025 Top Pick

Matzah Toast Crunch With Noa Tishby

By JewishBoston

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4/10/2025 Top Pick

Jewish Teens Guide to Passover – 2025 Supplement

Resources and opportunities for connection and conversation for Jewish teens, educators and professionals.

By Jewish Teen Initiative

4/10/2025 Top Pick

Spring Has Sprung: Baseball and Passover in New England

Opening Day at Fenway and Passover usually happen around the same time; somehow I just realized that these two sacred occasions have a whole lot in common.

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4/10/2025 Top Pick

JTI Peer Leadership Fellows Applications Now Open

Calling all rising 10th-12th graders looking to help make our community more connected and inclusive for everyone!

By Jewish Teen Initiative

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4/9/2025 Top Pick

Wishing You a Happy and Peaceful Passover

On Passover, we’re not just telling the story of the past, we’re writing the story of the future.

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

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4/9/2025 Top Pick

How to Be a Jewish Activist Online — and Stay Safe

By Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

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4/8/2025 Top Pick

Meet the Torah Scholar Dropping F-Bombs (For a Reason)

Miriam Anzovin is reimagining Jewish learning—loud, proud, and feminist AF. This Passover, meet the mythic woman she says belongs at your seder.

By Laura Conrad MandelFor Jewish Arts Collaborative

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