UMass Amherst scraps fall study programs in Israel The University of Massachusetts Amherst has canceled its study abroad programs in Israel for the fall semester.
Countercultural spirit lives on at iconic 1960s havurah Havurat Shalom in Massachusetts reshaped American Jewish life and is still going strong some five decades later.
Historian Jonathan Sarna leaves hospital, thanks supporters Jonathan Sarna, a leading scholar of American Jewish history, has returned home from the hospital two months after collapsing at his daughter’s college graduation.