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

"The Studio"

Culture

After 2-year delay, Philip Guston art exhibit explores his Jewish identity — under cloud of controversy

United States

A juror called him ‘one of those New York Jews.’ Now his 1983 arson conviction is being overturned because of antisemitism.

Tufts University.

United States

At Tufts, a student campaign urges peers not to join pro-Israel groups — even liberal ones

United States

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

A woman and a book cover

Culture

‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author wins Sydney Taylor Book Award for lifetime achievement in Jewish children’s literature

mameve book obit

Obituaries

Mameve Medwed, novelist whose ‘New England Jewish wit’ infused her work, dies at 79

A Christmas tree lights up outside with fireworks

United States

The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition

Legislators outside the Massachusetts state Capitol building

United States

Following high-profile antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts lawmakers vote to require genocide education in high schools

Obituaries

Israel Arbeiter, a forceful driver of Holocaust memory in Boston, dies at 96

The cover of Curt Leviant's translation of "Moshkeleh the Thief."

Culture

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘The Sopranos’: A gritty, forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem is published in English for the first time

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