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

Obituaries

Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82

By Penny Schwartz January 9, 2024

Obituaries

A Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston

By Penny Schwartz October 29, 2023

Culture

A pioneering 18th-century Sephardic silversmith’s Torah decorations to be displayed in US museums for first time

By Penny Schwartz August 10, 2023

Mazels

They were denied Jewish weddings in the Soviet Union. So these 3 couples just got married again.

By Penny Schwartz February 10, 2023

Culture

A picture book about a heroine of Holocaust memory and 2 fantasy novels top year’s Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards

By Penny Schwartz January 30, 2023

United States

As Boston dedicates a massive monument to Martin Luther King, local Jews march in solidarity

By Penny Schwartz January 13, 2023

United States

Brandeis U reeling after bus accident leaves 1 student dead, dozens injured; Jewish students hold vigils

By Penny Schwartz November 20, 2022

Obituaries

Henry Rosovsky, refugee from the Nazis who shaped Harvard University, dies at 95

By Penny Schwartz November 18, 2022

United States

Cora Wilburn, an early American Jewish novelist, gets a bridge named for her in her Mass. town

By Penny Schwartz October 13, 2022

Global

A German cellist reunited over 30 members of a Jewish family — including some who didn’t know their grandparents’ Holocaust story

By Penny Schwartz August 22, 2022

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