Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, eight pairs of health and computer science graduate students have found solace together in their labs at Israeli universities. Every day, the pairs, each including one Israeli and one Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza, check in with each other, ask about each other’s well-being and about… Continue reading Brookline nonprofit continues ‘chaotic and quixotic’ mission connecting Israeli and Palestinian graduate students amid violence
Author: Heather Beasley Doyle
Changing of the guard at a ‘home away from home’ for families of children with cancer
Dawn Emerman first came to The Boston House in 1979. She was 4 years old, and she arrived from Maine with her mother and younger sister, Danielle, who was being treated for medulloblastoma at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. The Boston House, then a Ronald McDonald House, became their home away from home, a… Continue reading Changing of the guard at a ‘home away from home’ for families of children with cancer
He’s no quarterback: Brookline’s Tom Brady watches the trees
Whenever Tom Brady is driving, he always looks up at the trees. “It never stops,” he said. Despite his football-famous name, this Tom Brady isn’t a professional quarterback. He’s the town of Brookline’s arborist, conservation administrator and tree warden. He spends much of his time examining the tree canopy through his windshield. Arborists, he said,… Continue reading He’s no quarterback: Brookline’s Tom Brady watches the trees