Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley later this month is hosting Adam Mansbach, the Rutgers University professor whose popular kids’ book for adults — “Go the F— to Sleep” — has been much discussed this year. He’s also written other well-received books, including Angry Black White Boy and The End of the Jews, and has a [...]
The Archdiocese of Boston has shut off the water and heat at St. James the Great church in Wellesley on Rte. 9, claiming concerns about the safety of the facility over winter raised by its insurer. This according to a MetroWest Daily News report. Parishioners who have been holding vigil at the church since it [...]
Boston Globe architecture writer Robert Campbell can barely contain himself in his review of Wellesley’s Temple Beth Elohim, which he calls “the best new house of worship to have been built in the Boston area in decades.” In his review, he also shares the back story on how temple members traveled to Israel with architect [...]
Supporters of St. James the Great Church in Wellesley won’t be happy with Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s decision announced today to sell off the Rte. 9 church and 5 other churches from the Archdiocese of Boston. But there’s no arguing about the Catholic church’s way with words. The churches are being relegated to “profane but not [...]
MetroWest Daily News reports that the pope has turned down appeals by St. James the Great in Wellesley and 8 other parishes looking to save their churches from a shutdown resulting from the Archdiocese of Boston’s fiscal crisis. St. James began a vigil in 2004 to keep the church alive and are still at it. [...]
Students at Temple Beth Elohim‘s nursery school, Gan Elohim, recently bought 100 new pairs of mittens as well as hats and scarves to display in the Wellesley school’s hallway as a Mitten Tree. The tree served to help the kids think about what it might be like not to have warm clothes during winter and [...]
The Chabad’s Menorah lighting celebration, which overlaps with the drive, starts at 4:30pm.
