Penny Schwartz

Penny Schwartz is a JTA correspondent based in Boston. She has been published in the Boston Globe, The Times of Israel, JewishBoston.com, WBUR’s TheARTery, and Hadassah Magazine.

From Penny Schwartz

Obituaries

A Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston

Culture

A pioneering 18th-century Sephardic silversmith’s Torah decorations to be displayed in US museums for first time

Mazels

They were denied Jewish weddings in the Soviet Union. So these 3 couples just got married again.

Culture

A picture book about a heroine of Holocaust memory and 2 fantasy novels top year’s Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards

United States

As Boston dedicates a massive monument to Martin Luther King, local Jews march in solidarity

United States

Brandeis U reeling after bus accident leaves 1 student dead, dozens injured; Jewish students hold vigils

Obituaries

Henry Rosovsky, refugee from the Nazis who shaped Harvard University, dies at 95

United States

Cora Wilburn, an early American Jewish novelist, gets a bridge named for her in her Mass. town

Wedding of Selma and Julius Blach.

Global

A German cellist reunited over 30 members of a Jewish family — including some who didn’t know their grandparents’ Holocaust story

Fred Manasse

Obituaries

Fred Manasse, physicist, sculptor and voice for fellow Holocaust survivors, dies at 86

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