Massachusetts

'Looksmaxxing' influencer Clavicular charged with rape in Massachusetts amid legal troubles

Clavicular faces charges of rape, drugging a person for sex, and providing alcohol to a minor over an alleged May 23, 2025 incident at his family's Cape Cod home.

Clavicular is seen outside 424 during Day One of Paris Fashion Week - Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 on June 23, 2026 in Paris, France; illustrative
Lindsay Clancy watches the jury file in at the end of the day without a verdict in the triple murder trial of the Duxbury mother in Plymouth Superior Court, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, US, August 31, 2026.

Single holdout juror blocking verdict in Lindsay Clancy murder trial, defense bids removal of juror

 Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks on Capitol Hill during the Patriotic Millionaires Tell the Rich: "PAY YOUR TAXES" press conference on April 15, 2026 in Washington, DC

Massachusetts progressive Markey, a longtime Israel critic, expected to rout centrist challenger

In “The Zionists, A Family Storm,” a Jewish clan’s vacation is torn apart by tensions over Israel and Palestine.

A play called ‘The Zionists’ turns the post-Oct. 7 discourse into a dysfunctional family drama 


Lone soldier saves life of Massachusetts doctor with stem cell donation

The lone soldier who made aliyah from California had only just turned 23 when she received the call telling her someone needed her stem cells.

Maya Ben Yitzhak, a lone soldier from Chicago, saved the life of a 64-year-old Massachusetts woman after she donated her bone marrow

Judge cites Betar US in releasing Massachusetts student from immigration detention

Betar US has been linked to the arrest of Efe Ercelik, who punched a Jewish student and later faced ICE detention.

 A demonstration for Israeli hostages staged by Hillel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shortly before a student was arrested for punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag at the event in Amherst, Massachusetts, Nov. 3, 2023.

Sheba Medical Center will open a healthcare startup accelerator in Boston

The new accelerator will serve as a soft landing platform for Israeli and international startups looking to expand into the American healthcare market.

 Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center.

MIT conference cancels talk on PFLP terrorist after participants threaten to withdraw

Speakers at the conference reportedly withdrew over a lecture by activist Susan Abulhawa on "Following in the Footsteps of [PFLP spokesman] Ghassan Kanafani."

 MIT STUDENTS were among the first to cheer the Hamas pogrom, says the writer.

University of Massachusetts confirms that five international students’ visas were revoked

The university's chancellor said some students had their visas revoked over minor traffic incidents.

 Boston skyline, Massachusetts

Jews at Tufts furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student, cautious to join protests

Jewish students at Tufts said that the arrest of a Turkish student was an issue of free speech.

 Signage and flowers are placed on a tree next to where ICE agents apprehended Tuft University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on March 27, 2025 in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Kitty Dukakis, dead at 88, was the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate

Kitty Dukakis, the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate, died at 88. She advocated for addiction recovery, Holocaust memory, and humanitarian causes.

 Kitty Dukakis, taking her father Harry Ellis Dickson's place, speaks to a crowd gathered at the Vilna Shul on Beacon Hill in Boston on Oct. 28, 1995, as part of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies commemoration of 16 historic Jewish buildings in Boston.

Massachusetts regulators probe Robinhood over March Madness basketball betting

Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said he was concerned Robinhood was "linking a gambling event on a popular sports event that's especially popular to young people to a brokerage account."

 A general view of a March Madness logo at center court before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Drake Bulldogs at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas on March 22, 2025.

How are Massachusetts schools failing Jewish students through bias? - opinion

As antisemitic lessons increase, who’s running K-12 education?

 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN attend school on February 25, 2025, in Gaza City. Jewish students in the US are being bullied at record levels, with the positioning of Zionism as an epithet, the writer explains.

Massachusetts Teachers Association gives teachers antisemitic, BDS materials

Massachusetts lawmakers pressed the MTA over its failure to remove ‘virulently antisemitic’ content from its teaching resources.

 View of an empty classroom at a school in Jerusalem, during a strike, on September 1, 2024.