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• Synagogue hails Dutch lawmaker as a hero

  February 28, 2009 1:46am

  In his home continent, Dutch politician Geert Wilders is something of a pariah over his harsh views on Islam, but he was cheered during a recent speech at a synagogue near Boston and is receiving support from two organizations with strong ties to the American Jewish community.

• Book on King-Heschel bond wins children’s lit award

  January 11, 2009 6:36pm

  A book that traces the lives and friendship of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel won an award for Jewish children’s literature.

• Jewish girls’ magazine wins $100,000

  December 11, 2008 6:12pm

  A magazine published by and for Jewish girls won a $100,000 prize.

• Edward Cohen: Slain labor leader remembered

  August 26, 2008 9:00am

  Edward Cohen, a rising labor leader in Boston, was shot and killed in a random shooting in 1907. Despite being mourned by thousands, including Louis Brandeis, he was eventually forgotten in the ensuing decades. But now efforts are underway to reclaim his

• Faked Shoah memoir spurs concerns

  March 4, 2008 10:00am

  In the wake of the recent disclosure by the author of a Holocaust memoir that her best-selling book is a fake, historians are worried that such incidents will cast doubt on legitimate Holocaust scholarship and memoirs.

• Armenians push forward with ADL fight

  October 17, 2007 9:00am

  Nearly two months after the Anti-Defamation League reversed itself by acknowledging the World War I-era massacres of Armenians as “tantamount to genocide,” activists in the Boston area are pushing ahead with their campaign against the organization.

• Biotech booming in Israel

  May 14, 2007 9:00am

  Academic research, government support and entrepreneurial zeal have fueled a boom in Israeli biotechnology, but it’s mostly foreign investors cashing in for now.

• Mediation effort over Boston mosque

  May 8, 2007 9:00am

  As the Workmen’s Circle tries to mediate a battle over a Boston mosque, some claim the Islamic group at the heart of the case is trying to stifle legitimate debate by suing a pro-Israel organization.

• Americans to undergo ‘Treatment

  March 6, 2007 10:00am

  A smash Israeli TV series is being adapted for HBO by some big names in Hollywood who are betting the American version will captivate audiences, too.

• Bernstein’s roots celebrated

  October 23, 2006 9:00am

  Sixteen years after his death, Leonard Bernstein can still draw an audience. A recent festival highlighting Bernstein’s Boston roots shed new light on the influence of the family synagogue.