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• Anti-Israel ads OK’d to run in Boston subways

  November 13, 2015 2:11pm

  The poster, which features a large photograph of a child and the word “violence” in large, bold letters, accuses Israel’s military of using US tax dollars to kill 2,000 Palestinian children since September 2000.

• The 5 best new Hanukkah books for children

  November 5, 2015 1:02pm

  The Festival of Lights is nearly here — don’t miss these top new tomes for the tykes in your life.

• The concentration camp currency you’ve never heard of

  October 19, 2015 12:59pm

  Wait, there was Holocaust money?

• New microbrew made from Boston river water — with Israeli tech

  October 2, 2015 6:49pm

  Desalitech president Nadav Efraty said helping to produce the beer is part of his company’s mission to better the environment.

• Read all about it: The 5 best new kids’ books for the High Holidays

  September 1, 2015 1:50pm

  From Antarctica to Shanghai and farms to cities, this year’s crop of holiday books for children offers a globe-trotting exploration.

• $5M bequest to UMass Amherst to benefit Judaic studies, Hillel

  July 14, 2015 4:07pm

  The bequest from an alumni couple is the largest single gift to the university’s Judaic and Near Eastern studies program.

• Jewish whiz kid catches math ‘mistake’ at Boston museum

  July 9, 2015 3:34pm

  Joseph Rosenfeld, a 15-year-old Jewish math enthusiast from Virginia, questioned the accuracy of a display at the Museum of Science.

• David Aronson, rabbi’s rebel son, top Expressionist, dies at 91

  July 8, 2015 6:24pm

  The tension between Aronson’s Orthodox Jewish upbringing in and creative vision was a major theme in his art and life.

• El Al launching nonstop Boston-Tel Aviv flights

  June 24, 2015 11:44am

  The new service is being seen as a further boost to the economic, academic and communal ties between Israel and Greater Boston.

• Jewish artist’s Lincoln portrait gets a brief moment in the sun

  April 30, 2015 4:25pm

  The painting by Solomon Nunes Carvahlo is the only known portrait of the 16th president by a Jewish contemporary.