My son, Josh, featured in the Boston Globe as the shofar blower at our Yom Kippur services All: Happy fall. G’mar Tova. With the Jewish New Year and Days of Awe over, I was proud to see our son Joshua’s picture in the Boston Globe this week – he was the shofar blower at our

I had the chance to visit beautiful Shelburne Falls this summer. All: After a summer break, regular Council meetings resume on Monday evening. I hope you all enjoyed your summer and had some opportunity to relax with friends and family. Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States which changed

Fabulous light displays at the zoo in Louisville, Kentucky All: It’s been a little while since my last newsletter. I hope you’ve been able to enjoy the summer despite the smoke, heat, and deluge in the last few weeks. It’s been an eventful summer in Cambridge. The World Cup brought so much energy and excitement

Love the Scottish World Cup spirit of fun All: I’m back from vacation – which was in relatively remote areas of Utah – including 5 days on a raft accompanied by a string quartet (!). It was a very restorative break. A first in many years, I was without internet access for a week. With

I’m off the Utah for a week of vacation. I enjoyed a wonderful choir rehearsal at Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. All: Happy June. June is a very exciting month and a lot is going on in Cambridge. Happy graduation to CRLS students, happy pride, and an early happy Juneteenth. There are tons

I was honored to speak at the City’s Holocaust Commemoration this week. All: It’s been a challenging time all around. The Memorial Drive shooting shattered all of us – the brazen horrifying violent act midday on one of our most highly trafficked streets. By a miracle, a state trooper and civilian ex-Marine with a legal

I was honored to speak on a Thermal Energy Network panel at MIT last weekend All: Happy Mother’s Day for those who celebrate – the lilacs are blooming, and many tulips are out. I hope you enjoy this spring of growth, green, and floral splendor. Budget meetings for the FY27 budget started this week and

A memorial held April 11 in honor of Cambridge poet Charles Coe All: I hope you enjoyed Patriots Day and Marathon Monday. It’s a special day in greater Boston and makes the community come alive. The Riverview condos/221 Mt. Auburn St demolition project is now completed, and we can be grateful that the City stepped

My son, Josh, and his friends dressed up for his birthday and the premiere of the Mario movie All: With the latest round of news causing some whiplash with a hopefully averted World War III, it is important for us to work towards a better world and celebrate what we can. So to celebrate joy,

Enjoy the North Cambridge Family Opera’s redition of Weedpatch this weekend! All: Happy spring. We may be through the snow of this winter, although the April 1 snowstorm of 1997 did happen… Despite heavy snowfall this winter, the Northeast Region of Massachusetts — including Cambridge — has been upgraded to Level 3, Critical Drought, which means