Tag: Boston
November 14, 1903: Women’s Trade Union League
The Women’s Trade Union League was founded in Boston on this date in 1903 during the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor.
Led in part by Lillian Wald, the organization brought together wealthy...
Boston ‘Jewish Advocate’ ends weekly print publication
The Jewish Advocate announced this week it has ended publication of its print edition after 118 years.
The Sept. 25 print edition will be the final print version, according to an announcement on its front page. The outlet cited...
Questions stir over BDS, certain Democratic primary candidates in Massachusetts
Ahead of the Sept. 1 Democratic primary for the Massachusetts 4th District, questions are growing over one candidate’s past stances regarding the BDS movement.
Progressive Jesse Mermell, a former Brookline select board member, who has...
Could a pro-BDS congressional candidate win in New England’s largest Jewish district?
The Democratic Party has undergone a shift in recent years, with a number of longtime incumbents falling to progressive upstarts. In heavily blue Massachusetts, the race to succeed Democrat Rep. Joe Kennedy (who is...
White supremacist disrupts webinar for Jewish teens featuring deputy anti-Semitism envoy
A webinar on the video conferencing platform Zoom about anti-Semitism last week, featuring U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim, was disrupted by a white supremacist and hacker—an example of...
Jewish protesters shut down Boston traffic over migrant detention centers
More than 1,000 demonstrators, including Jewish ones, shut down traffic in Boston on Tuesday, some chanting the post-Holocaust rallying cry “Never again” to protest the reportedly horrific conditions at migrant detention centers in the United States.
The...