Sun Valley is a pandemic hotspot
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 17, 2020
SUN VALLEY, Ida. — Even before the arrival of the coronavirus upended Passover plans across the world, the Wood River Jewish Community’s seder was going to be...
Earliest known American Jewish novel published
Penny Schwartz, JTANov 21, 2019
BOSTON — More than a century after her death, Cora Wilburn is having her moment. With the rediscovery and recent publication of her novel Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and...
Boston public art installation inspired by Passover
Penny Schwartz, JTAJul 11, 2019
BOSTON— A Passover-themed work of public art produced by a Jewish arts and cultural organization here was named one of the country’s top 50 public arts installations...
Jewish Patriots fans revel in victory
Penny Schwartz, JTAFeb 14, 2019
CANTON, Mass.— At a kickoff party Sunday night, Feb. 3, at the Orchard Cove senior home in this suburb about 25 miles from Boston, boisterous cheers erupted from a...
Once a refusenik, now a literary light
Penny Schwartz, JTADec 20, 2018
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The well-worn books that fill the shelves in David Shrayer-Petrov’s living room reveal the remarkable literary life of the influential refusenik,...
Polish rescuers of Jews honored at unique museum
Penny Schwartz, JTAJul 05, 2018
MARKOWA, Poland — Memorial plaques bearing the names of Poles killed for rescuing Jews line the pathway leading to a small, austere structure built into a hillside in...
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary gift
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 19, 2018
NEW YORK — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist,...
Refugee’s journey: From Gdansk to Harvard
Penny Schwartz, JTANov 09, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When Henry Rosovsky first arrived at Harvard University in 1949, a newly minted graduate of the College of William and Mary, the young Jewish...
Jewish vote crucial in key states
Penny Schwartz, JTAOct 06, 2016
BOSTON — A new study, touted as the first-ever state-by-state, county-by-county Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in key...
Meet Ronald Liebowitz of Brandeis
Penny Schwartz, JTAJul 21, 2016
BOSTON — After 32 years at Middlebury College, the last 11 as its president, Ron Liebowitz is calling Brandeis University his new academic home. On July 1, the...
