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Members of Boston’s Jewish community gathered Sunday in a small park in Newton Centre, same as they have for most Sundays in the last year. They were there to mourn the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel and call for the release of those still held in captivity.

One year since the war in Gaza began, a Massachusetts man who escaped with his family said he's still coming to terms with the experience and his feelings of survivor's guilt.

As design director at MASARY Studios, Hawkins executes luminescent, large-scale art installations using architecture, technology and algorithms.

The latest conflict in the Middle East has been raging for a year now, and it continues to reverberate in Massachusetts. Two local friends, a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man, talk about the last year and how it's affected their call to shared humanity.

"A lot of, members of the Jewish community feel isolated at this time, and that gesture of checking in on friends and neighbors and colleagues who are Jewish is so, so meaningful," senior Rabbi Karen Thomashow, of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, told WBUR's Weekend Edition.

The HONK! Festival in Somerville and Cambridge that gets underway Friday and lasts through the weekend. Members of the Good Trouble Brass Band brought their instruments to WBUR's Morning Edition to share music and talk about the festival. 

As Massachusetts needs thousands more solar workers in order to meet climate goals, the SHINE program recruits people from neighborhoods that have high environmental burdens but have been under-represented in the green economy.

The Lawrence hip-hop trio won over our judges with a charismatic performance of their song "Slum Village."

In the state’s 2022 midterm election, federal data show, the eligible voter turnout rates for Asian and Hispanic voters was just about half that of white voters. Advocates say the low turnout rate was partly due to language barriers.

Monday is set to be the last day Steward Health Care operates hospitals in Massachusetts. WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing speaks with reporter Deborah Becker on the Steward hearing over the weekend and where the deals stand.