Massachusetts

Lone soldier saves life of Massachusetts doctor with stem cell donation

The lone soldier who made aliyah from California had only just turned 23 when she received the call telling her someone needed her stem cells.

Maya Ben Yitzhak, a lone soldier from Chicago, saved the life of a 64-year-old Massachusetts woman after she donated her bone marrow
 A demonstration for Israeli hostages staged by Hillel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shortly before a student was arrested for punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag at the event in Amherst, Massachusetts, Nov. 3, 2023.

Judge cites Betar US in releasing Massachusetts student from immigration detention

 Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center.

Sheba Medical Center will open a healthcare startup accelerator in Boston

 MIT STUDENTS were among the first to cheer the Hamas pogrom, says the writer.

MIT conference cancels talk on PFLP terrorist after participants threaten to withdraw


University of Massachusetts confirms that five international students’ visas were revoked

The university's chancellor said some students had their visas revoked over minor traffic incidents.

 Boston skyline, Massachusetts

Jews at Tufts furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student, cautious to join protests

Jewish students at Tufts said that the arrest of a Turkish student was an issue of free speech.

 Signage and flowers are placed on a tree next to where ICE agents apprehended Tuft University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on March 27, 2025 in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Kitty Dukakis, dead at 88, was the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate

Kitty Dukakis, the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate, died at 88. She advocated for addiction recovery, Holocaust memory, and humanitarian causes.

 Kitty Dukakis, taking her father Harry Ellis Dickson's place, speaks to a crowd gathered at the Vilna Shul on Beacon Hill in Boston on Oct. 28, 1995, as part of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies commemoration of 16 historic Jewish buildings in Boston.

Massachusetts regulators probe Robinhood over March Madness basketball betting

Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said he was concerned Robinhood was "linking a gambling event on a popular sports event that's especially popular to young people to a brokerage account."

 A general view of a March Madness logo at center court before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Drake Bulldogs at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas on March 22, 2025.

How are Massachusetts schools failing Jewish students through bias? - opinion

As antisemitic lessons increase, who’s running K-12 education?

 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN attend school on February 25, 2025, in Gaza City. Jewish students in the US are being bullied at record levels, with the positioning of Zionism as an epithet, the writer explains.

Massachusetts Teachers Association gives teachers antisemitic, BDS materials

Massachusetts lawmakers pressed the MTA over its failure to remove ‘virulently antisemitic’ content from its teaching resources.

 View of an empty classroom at a school in Jerusalem, during a strike, on September 1, 2024.

Meet the fish detective who can decode your gefilte fish heritage

For decades, Wulf’s Fish has helped home cooks keep the gefilte fish tradition alive with expert guidance and premium seafood.

 Gefilte fish is traditionally made from whitefish, carp or pike, and can be made from scratch.

Want to stop smoking? $700 in rewards can really help, study says

“We wanted to find out if giving people rewards helps them to quit smoking in the long term," said Professor Caitlin Notley, lead author of the study from UEA’s Norwich Medical School.

 Want to stop smoking? $700 in rewards can really help, study says.

Mass. man arrested for incitement to shoot synagogue worshippers, threats to rape Jewish women 

Mathew Scouras, 34, was arraigned Monday  for allegedly posting on an internet image board threats against Jewish people.

 A 9mm Glock handgun, numerous rifle parts, ammunition, and over $70,000 in cash that was located by Beverly Police during execution of a search warrant at the home of a Beverly man who encouraged others on an internet image board to shoot people outside of synagogues.

Massachusetts man pleads guilty to threatening to bomb synagogue

John Reardon during a hearing in Boston federal court pleaded guilty to threatening to bomb the Congregation Agudas Achim and threatening to kill Jewish children.

John Reardon of Millis, Massachusetts, appears in an undated booking photograph after his arrest for allegedly making a threatening call to a synagogue in Attleboro, Massachusetts

‘Hitting her is not working, have to knife her’: Man accused of stabbing girlfriend with sword

Shane Curry, charged with first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Nevaeh Goddard, with a sword, attempted suicide after.

 The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is pictured on July 30, 2024.