Massachusetts

Kalaniyot faculty network strengthens campus ties to Israeli scholars, fights academic boycotts

MIT's Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, deeply impacted by campus antisemitism and anti-Israel protests, helped create Kalaniyot to combat academic boycotts and strengthen ties with Israeli researchers.

A pro-Palestinian protest encampment is re-occupied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,US, May 6, 2024.
A US Coast Guard plane searches for people after it found debris from a medical transport aircraft off the shore of Massachusetts' Nantucket island, US, October 3, 2026.

US Coast Guard halts search for six people missing after medical transport aircraft crashes

Country singer Zach Bryan wears 'Free Palestine' shirt to show at Gillette Stadium, October 3, 2026.

Zach Bryan’s ‘Free Palestine’ shirt shows how political pressure can backfire on Israel - analysis

Lindsay Clancy looks on as Judge William Sullivan has declared a mistrial in Plymouth, US, September 4, 2026.

Lindsay Clancy returns to court for hearing after murder case mistrial ruling


Pro-Israel veteran arrested in Massachusetts after shooting pro-Palestine assailant

The man wearing the pin stood across the street from ten pro-Israel protesters calling them "sick" and saying they were "defending genocide."

 Screenshot of video showing pro-Palestine individual tackling pro-Israel veteran, shots are fired.

In a first, Massachusetts lawmakers delay budget fight to accommodate Passover observance

“They immediately said, ‘We’ll have to figure out a new way,’” recalled Balser, who represents the heavily Jewish suburb of Newton.

 Representatives' desk with microphone and voting buttons (yea/nay)

Boston: Palestinian terrorist flag waved at Israeli dance troupe protest

During a Friday protest in Boston against the Israeli Vertigo Dance Company, pro-Palestinian activists prominently displayed the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

 Screenshot of Party for Socialism & Liberation Boston and the Boston Coalition for Palestine

Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years for fraud involving $8 billion US dollars, marking his dramatic downfall from billionaire status.

 am Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, at a courthouse in New York, U.S., August 11, 2023.

First pig-to-human kidney transplant performed in Boston

a 62-year-old man received a pig kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital. This landmark surgery represents a significant step forward in addressing the chronic shortage of organs for transplant.

Doctor lifting pig's kidney for transplant

Massachusetts police investigating string of vandalism targeting pro-Israel homes as hate crimes

Most of the reported incidents in the heavily Jewish Boston suburb over the past month involve the defacement or removal of pro-Israel signs from lawns or fences.

 A man walks past graffiti reading 'Free Palestine', amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Dublin, Ireland, November 15, 2023.

Feds charge Massachusetts man for calls threatening Jews with ‘genocide’

"If you can kill their children we can kill yours,” Reardon, of Millis, Massachusetts, allegedly said.

 FBI headquarters building is seen in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2018.

Catholic students asked to behave 'consistent with their biological sex'

The controversial new policy enforces students using their pronouns assigned at birth and their birth names and forbids same-sex relationships.

 AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Mysterious ice block falls from space, destroys US family's home

It is believed the ice block may have fallen from an aircraft flying above the home.

 Illustrative image of a large chunk of ice.

Antisemitic rice bag incident shakes small Massachusetts town

The police believe the antisemitic rice bag incident was the work of the neo-Nazi extremist group the Goyim Defense League.

 A bag of rice (illustrative).