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

United States

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

By Penny Schwartz February 18, 2020

Culture

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

By Penny Schwartz January 28, 2020

United States

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

Culture

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

By Penny Schwartz December 16, 2019

Culture

The earliest known American Jewish novel introduces a new feminist voice

By Penny Schwartz November 19, 2019

United States

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

By Penny Schwartz November 12, 2019

United States

8 swastikas discovered on Smith College campus

By Penny Schwartz October 28, 2019

United States

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

By Penny Schwartz October 25, 2019

United States

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

By Penny Schwartz October 15, 2019

Obituaries

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

By Penny Schwartz September 26, 2019

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