Judaism
Judaism
Selected Publications
2025
Buchdahl, Angela. The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.
Buchdahl, Angela. The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025.
2021
Oppenheimer, Mark. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Oppenheimer, Mark. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Sarna, Jonathan, ed. Coming to Terms With America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Sarna, Jonathan, ed. Coming to Terms With America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Explore Judaism in Greater Boston
In 1649, a Sephardic Jew named Solomon Franco arrived from New Amsterdam (later New York City) and became the first Jew to live in the Boston area. In 1852, Temple Ohabei Shalom became the first synagogue in the Boston area, marking the transition in Boston Jewish history between a record of Jewish individuals to a record of Jewish congregations and organizations. As of 2015, there are 248,000 Jews living in Boston.
