Massachusetts
Massachusetts man threatened to kill Jews as antisemitic incidents rise
By Yonat Shimron — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — The 59-year-old Massachusetts man is alleged to have called Congregation Agudas Achim, a synagogue in Attleboro, and left a voicemail threatening to kill Jews.
‘Hello, Bookstore’ shows why we need community
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 8, 2022
(RNS) — It is not about shopping, or even about reading. It is about having your soul touched.
Muslims win office in US municipal elections in 2021
By Joseph Hammond — November 10, 2021
(RNS) — Three years after the first Muslim women were elected to Congress, successful campaigns in Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania put Muslims in key local offices.
Massachusetts man charged with attempted arson at Jewish nursing home
By Associated Press — April 16, 2020
(AP) — Officers found a full gas canister that had a Christian religious pamphlet burned out in the nozzle at the entrance of Ruth's House in Longmeadow on April 2.
Cambridge passes resolution against India’s citizenship laws
By Aysha Khan — February 12, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) — The Cambridge City Council has adopted a resolution urging India to halt changes to the country's citizenship laws that have prompted massive international backlash and allegations of anti-Muslim bias.
Boston’s Catholic archdiocese expands effort to digitize archives
By Aysha Khan — August 12, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — The data will help individuals hoping to trace back their family ancestry, as well as historians, genealogists, economists and other scholars looking for bulk data for their research.
A fight over ‘So help me God’? God help us
By Thomas Reese — May 13, 2019
(RNS) — Let’s avoid adding more fuel to the culture wars. God should not be a political football.
Saying kaddish for a bookstore
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 3, 2019
If independent bookstores die, so will ideas and conversation.
Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti in Massachusetts
By Aysha Khan — March 20, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — At least 30 gravestones were desecrated with swastikas and anti-Semitic messages at the Hebrew Cemetery in Fall River, Mass., over the weekend.
Does God care if you smoke weed? Many Bay State faith groups say yeah, man
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 23, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — For many people of faith in the Bay State, legalization hasn’t burned away the moral issues that come with using drugs for fun.
‘You belong’: Threatened Muslim child receives 500 interfaith letters of support
By Aysha Khan — November 30, 2018
BOSTON (RNS) – Two weeks after receiving the threats, the Framingham, Mass., fifth-grader has stacks of letters of support from all over the country.
The secret Jewish history of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 22, 2017
Sing it with me: "You can get anything you want...." Fifty years ago!
Mississippi still rules the religiosity rankings
By Lauren Markoe — February 9, 2017
(RNS) And at the bottom for the ninth year in a row: Vermont.
Massachusetts church vigil ending after 11 years
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 21, 2016
(RNS) Angry their parish would be closed in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, around 100 parishioners took turns sleeping overnight in the church.
Mass. pastor Scott Lively faces possible fine for harsh anti-gay efforts in Uganda
By Renée K. Gadoua — October 1, 2015
(RNS) A federal lawsuit lodged by a Ugandan LGBT advocacy group alleges Scott Lively conspired with Ugandan religious and political leaders to incite anti-gay sentiment resulting in discrimination, arrest, torture and murder in that country.
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