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Eliza Kanner is entering her third season as a cheerleader for the New England Patriots. (Courtesy of the New England Patriots/Dwight Darian)

Meet Eliza Kanner: Israel advocate by day, New England Patriots cheerleader by night

Her day job is senior development officer at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Boston-area Jewish federation. Since 2021, she’s also an NFL cheerleader

June 24, 2023, 3:18 am

Meet Eliza Kanner: Israel advocate by day, New England Patriots cheerleader by night

Her day job is senior development officer at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Boston-area Jewish federation. Since 2021, she’s also an NFL cheerleader

By jacob gurvis

Economy Minister Nir Barkat arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 16, 2023, 5:13 pm

‘Israel shooting itself in the foot,’ Jewish leaders warn Barkat in Boston

Heads of Jewish organizations tell economy minister that government’s extremist members and judicial overhaul are making defending Israel a tall task

By ToI Staff

Mayyim Hayyim is a community mikveh outside of Boston. (Courtesy Mayyim Hayyim via JTA)

February 16, 2023, 8:32 am

Boston pluralistic community mikveh closes after pipes burst in freezing weather

Video shows damage to Mayyim Hayyim congregation’s ritual baths; no date set for reopening; CEO: ‘The impact is devastating’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A couple prepares to step on a glass, a symbol in Jewish weddings, after their Jewish ceremony in Boston, February 7, 2023. (Igor Klimov via JTA)

February 11, 2023, 1:31 am

Boston Chabad marries 3 couples who were barred from having Jewish weddings in USSR

‘It was my dream’: Ukraine-born husbands and wives, married for a collective 125 years, stand under huppah for 1st time because religious ceremonies were illegal in Soviet Union

By Penny Schwartz

Front cover of Cora Wilburn's book 'Cosella Wayne'. (Screenshot/Youtube: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

October 14, 2022, 11:07 am

19th century US Jewish novelist has hometown bridge named after her

‘How very fitting that we now remember this bridge builder with this bridge,’ professor says of commemoration in Massachusetts town for Cora Wilburn

By Penny Schwartz

Police and emergency personnel respond the scene of an explosion in Boston, September 13, 2022. (WCVB via AP)

September 14, 2022, 8:44 am

One injured as package explodes on Boston university campus

Man suffer minor injuries in blast; bomb squad defuses another explosive at city’s Museum of Fine Arts; FBI assisting with investigation

By WILLIAM J. KOLE

A swastika, painted on the wall of the Stedelijk Museum overnight, is seen in Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

July 1, 2022, 10:43 pm

Boston-area college employee fired over repeated antisemitic graffiti

Unnamed Curry College staff member identified as alleged culprit behind rash of hateful messages scrawled across campus dating back to January

By Andrew Lapin

A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, on July 11, 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

April 12, 2022, 11:55 pm

Boston couple helping city build its first Holocaust museum

Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman say museum, which will be located near Boston Common, will strive ‘to make the lessons of the Holocaust relevant to new generations’

By Andrew Lapin

A server carries rolls to a table of customers seated outside at Legal Sea Foods, on May 26, 2021, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

February 27, 2022, 7:47 pm

George Berkowitz, the founder of Legal Sea Foods, dies at 97

Son of a Russian immigrant, Berkowitz founded the now-sprawling restaurant chain in 1950 as a fish market in a Boston suburb

By AP

February 23, 2022, 6:43 am

Boston-area college in turmoil after string of antisemitic and racist incidents

Curry College offering $10,000 reward for information on those involved in campaign of hate graffiti at school that began after International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Penny Schwartz

A suspect in the fires at a Boston-area Chabad in May 2019 captured by a security camera (Chabad)

February 17, 2022, 10:31 am

Brother of suspect in Boston antisemitic arson attacks charged for obstructing probe

Former security guard at US embassy in Stockholm faces ‘decades in prison’ after allegedly obstructing investigation into now-deceased brother’s alleged 2019 hate crimes

By Mark Pratt

A group of neo-Nazis protest outside Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, January 22, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

February 3, 2022, 2:18 am

Harvard doctors seeking health equity say they won’t be deterred by neo-Nazi protest

After white nationalist rally outside Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Michelle Morse and Bram Wispelwey vow to continue to ‘push for racial justice’

By AP

A person crosses the street during white-out conditions as Winter Storm Kenan bears down on January 29, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Scott Eisen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

January 30, 2022, 1:42 am

Eastern US in emergency as ‘bomb cyclone’ unleashes powerful blizzard

New York, Boston to be blanketed by a foot of snow by end of Saturday, as one of the strongest storms in recent years causes transportation chaos, power outages

By ed jones and Celine Gesret

The Huntington Ave. facade of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on March 12, 2020. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)

January 26, 2022, 6:27 am

Boston art museum to return 17th-century painting to heirs of pre-WWII Jewish owner

Ferenc Chorin’s daughter says her father, who died in 1964, never searched for the artwork but would have been ‘elated to learn that some form of his former life had been found’

By Shira Hanau

Behind the scenes of 'Witness,' a new online production by the Arlekin Players. (Courtesy)

January 8, 2022, 5:53 am

In Boston, COVID sends Russian-Jewish theater group hurtling through space and time

In ‘Witness,’ playing through January 23, the Arlekin Players take their performance online, combining tech elements to transport viewers back to the ill-fated MS St. Louis in 1939

By Julie Masis