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

Fred Manasse, physicist, sculptor and voice for fellow Holocaust survivors, dies at 86

By Penny Schwartz June 9, 2022

Culture

After 2-year delay, Philip Guston art exhibit explores his Jewish identity — under cloud of controversy

By Penny Schwartz May 11, 2022

United States

A juror called him ‘one of those New York Jews.’ Now his 1983 arson conviction is being overturned because of antisemitism.

By Penny Schwartz April 5, 2022

United States

At Tufts, a student campaign urges peers not to join pro-Israel groups — even liberal ones

By Penny Schwartz March 17, 2022

United States

Boston area college in turmoil after weeks-long string of antisemitic and racist incidents

By Penny Schwartz February 22, 2022

Culture

‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author wins Sydney Taylor Book Award for lifetime achievement in Jewish children’s literature

By Penny Schwartz January 24, 2022

Obituaries

Mameve Medwed, novelist whose ‘New England Jewish wit’ infused her work, dies at 79

By Penny Schwartz January 3, 2022

A Christmas tree lights up outside with fireworks

United States

The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition

By Penny Schwartz December 20, 2021

Legislators outside the Massachusetts state Capitol building

United States

Following high-profile antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts lawmakers vote to require genocide education in high schools

By Penny Schwartz November 26, 2021

Obituaries

Israel Arbeiter, a forceful driver of Holocaust memory in Boston, dies at 96

By Penny Schwartz November 4, 2021

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