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The Boston Globe detailed the Hecht House attacks in its Nov. 3, 1950, edition. Boston GlobeOn a chilly Halloween night in late October 1950, dozens of Jewish teenagers and their friends gathered for merriment in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester at the Hecht House, a Jewish community center that provided job training and hosted social events. While there, they celebrated the holiday with dancing, cake and ice cream. Then, terror approached again. Motivated by antisemitism, neighborhood teen

A series of internal struggles has hit Lena Park Community Development Corporation (CDC) over the past several months. Yet another executive director was fired during the summer and yet another board chair resigned this month just as hundreds of new units are about to be built on the former State Hospital land, and so members of the State Hospital Citizens Advisory Committee

Brooke Charter School Mattapan 7th grader Emily Ramirez lives for sports and craves competition, but far too often urban middle and high school students like her often don’t have the same opportunities to get on a playing field that their suburban and private school counterparts do.