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

Culture

How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

United States

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, Boston’s Jewish community unveils a memorial to its victims

United States

New Hampshire lawmakers send bill requiring Holocaust education to governor

Bonds of Life

Sidney Forman, 95, lived out a dream with performance of musical comedy he wrote in the 1960s

Bonds of Life

Rievan Slavkin, 85, beloved rabbi and champion shofar blower

United States

A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ breathes a sigh of relief after US Supreme Court preserves DACA

Culture

This Jewish Boston bookseller wants to help you spruce up your Zoom background

Bonds of Life

Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust survivor who designed underwater museum exhibits

Bonds of Life

Sylvia Glenn, 98, painter who befriended Margaret Mead

Obituaries

Elsa Dorfman, photographer who was subject of Errol Morris film, dies at 83

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