Penny Schwartz
We don’t know what Glikl looked like. But Bertha Pappenheim, a descendant of Glickl Hamel, poses as Glikl for this portrait painted by the artist Leopold Pilichowski sometime during the 1920s. (Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute)
July 30, 2020, 9:53 am
How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague?
This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse into that story
By Penny Schwartz
The Tufts University campus in suburban Boston has more than 5,500 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students. Here, a student sprints across campus. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
September 6, 2018, 11:40 am
Tufts students say ‘Colonizing Palestine’ is a course that demonizes Israel
By Penny Schwartz
Amar’e Stoudemire, left, talks with Jon Frankel at the Israel Summit at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 8, 2018. (Collin Howell/Israel Summit at Harvard)
April 12, 2018, 11:45 am
Harvard’s first summit on Israel brings Amar’e Stoudemire, good news to campus
By Penny Schwartz
Visitors to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow look at one of the many sculptures depicting the history of Jewish life in Russia. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
January 18, 2018, 11:40 am
A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia’s Jews
By Penny Schwartz
Delegates to the URJ 2017 biennial in Boston included Reform Jews from 500 congregations, 51 states and territories, six Canadian provinces, and 12 others countries, according to the URJ. (Photos Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)
December 14, 2017, 11:40 am
Reform movement examines its rifts with Israel during largest-ever convention
By Penny Schwartz
Elias Rosenfeld, a sophomore at Brandeis University, speaks at a rally at Boston’s Faneuil Hall hours after President Trump announced he was rescinding DACA protections for some 800,000 young people. (Jeremy Burton/JCRC of Greater Boston)
September 14, 2017, 11:45 am
A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ is scared, but refuses to despair
By Penny Schwartz
The scene at Shalom on Seroka Street, the free concert after Shabbat at the festival. (Michal Ramuz/Krakow Jewish Culture Festival)
July 20, 2017, 11:40 am
Festival organizers in Krakow ask: Who speaks for Jewish culture?
By Penny Schwartz
Text and images from “A Poem for Peter,” a tribute to Ezra Jack Keats by Andrea Davis Pinkney. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House)
January 19, 2017, 11:49 am
Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats honored in new children’s book
By Penny Schwartz
September 29, 2016, 11:40 am
Study shows how Jewish vote could play crucial role in key states
By Penny Schwartz
Ron Liebowitz comes to Brandeis after earning acclaim for his 11-year tenure as president of Middlebury College. (Courtesy of Brandeis University)
July 21, 2016, 11:44 am
Meet Brandeis’s new president
‘Discomfort is an important element of education,’ Ron Liebowitz says
By Penny Schwartz
Some of Ezra Schwartz’s many friends mourn over the coffin of the American terror victim at a service at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel before the body was repatriated to Boston for his funeral the following day, November 21. (JTA/Ben Sales)
November 27, 2015, 2:00 pm
Remembering Ezra Schwartz
‘He made our lives better and happier’
By Penny Schwartz
December 17, 2010, 4:10 am
Barriers broken, female rabbis look to broader influence
By Penny Schwartz
November 19, 2010, 11:00 am
Blue trikes, pickle-eating pigs on the Chanukah reading menu
By Penny Schwartz
March 30, 2006, 4:01 am
Making day schools No. 1: Educators, funders, professionals talk shop at conference
By Penny Schwartz
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