Day: March 19, 2019

Maghrib (evening) prayer during the “Candlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks." at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)

Activism Greg CookMarch 19, 2019 0

Vigil for Victims of New Zealand Mosque Attacks: ‘That Could Have Been Me’

“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall…Continue Reading →

Purim shpil performed at Gragger!5779 at SEIU 32BJ Meeting Hall in Boston, March 16, 2019. (Greg Cook)

Our Photos Greg CookMarch 19, 2019 0

Gragger Retells The Jewish Purim Tale As A Radical, Queer Burlesque

Gragger—Boston Workmen’s Circle’s annual, grown-up “evening of gender-bending, ancestral-healing, world-transforming Purim festivities”—is named for the clacker or rattle traditionally used to blot out the villain’s name in the ancient Jewish…Continue Reading →