Penny Schwartz

Penny Schwartz is JTA's 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

Stars of David graffiti spray-painted on 2 Boston apartment buildings

By Penny Schwartz February 18, 2020 11:54 am

Top Jewish children’s books include stories about a Yiddish culture rescuer and the Holocaust

By Penny Schwartz January 28, 2020 12:33 pm

Trailblazing book by Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats is most checked-out book ever at New York Public Library

By Penny Schwartz January 15, 2020 2:38 pm

‘Goodnight Bubbala’ and other Hanukkah-themed children’s books for the holiday season

By Penny Schwartz December 16, 2019 4:57 pm

The earliest known American Jewish novel introduces a new feminist voice

By Penny Schwartz November 19, 2019 5:01 pm

High-profile Israel boycott conference at UMass Amherst sparks concern — and a peace march

By Penny Schwartz November 12, 2019 2:47 pm

8 swastikas discovered on Smith College campus

By Penny Schwartz October 28, 2019 2:18 pm

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

By Penny Schwartz October 25, 2019 1:33 pm

Israeli flag defaced with swastika and white supremacist symbols found at Cape Cod synagogue

By Penny Schwartz October 15, 2019 12:56 pm

Acclaimed artist and children’s book author Mordicai Gerstein dies at 83

By Penny Schwartz September 26, 2019 7:29 am