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CBS News
3 days ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Boston student remains stuck in Israel as conflict with Iran escalates
As the Israel and Iran conflict escalates, Boston-Needham native Naomi Carr-Gloth is one of many foreign students stuck in Israel as the airspace remains closed. Boston-Needham native stuck in Israel "It was really scary when one missile hit a five-minute walk from me. It was this huge explosion, and it was terrifying. Probably the scariest thing I've ever gone through," Carr-Gloth said. She is in Tel Aviv as part of an internship program that has just been cancelled for safety concerns. "We're sort of stuck. The program is over, but our program is working hard to get us out of the country, back to the U.S., as soon as possible," Carr-Gloth said. She arrived in Israel in May as part of a 10-day birthright trip. She stayed with friends and family until her Ohio State University internship program started in June. Now that the internship is canceled, the program has moved all the students south of Tel Aviv to a safer area. Right now, she's not sure when she will be able to fly out. "Obviously, it's scary, but, you know, I have family and friends here who have been going through these things for years - especially since Oct 7th," she said. Travel advisory for Israel This week, the State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel to Level 4, the highest level, and warned U.S. citizens not to travel to the country. Eighteen-year-old Naomi Stoll just graduated from Gann Academy in Waltham and plans to do a gap year in Jerusalem to be part of a 10-month Torah study program to deepen her knowledge of Jewish text and to volunteer. Stoll just returned from Israel last month as part of her senior trip. If allowed, she plans to go back in August. "Of course, I am nervous because ballistic missiles are being, like, shot at the country which I am going to, but I can't live my life in fear. I'm hoping and praying for peace," she said. Both women said their love for Israel runs deep and they wouldn't change their experiences, no matter how unsettling things are right now.
Boston Globe
31-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
From numbers to names in a forgotten graveyard
This cemetery covers about two-thirds of an acre, with a shrine at the rear holding rosary beads, painted rocks, pieces of paper with unsigned and sorrowful messages, shells, and dollar bills. The grass is diligently mowed between rows of stone markers without names. It was created in 1947, with numbers signifying the order of burials until they ended in 1979, and letters dividing right and left sides: P for Protestant, C for Catholic. Jewish and Muslim patients are also buried here. Back in 2018, over the course of several years, a group of students from Gann Academy, a nearby Jewish high school, Advertisement Ten years after burials ended, I trained in one of the psychiatry units at Metropolitan State Hospital. We sat on the floor next to catatonic patients, tried to speak their language we could not understand, and prescribed medications with many clear bad effects and fewer clear good effects. I had no idea a cemetery existed just down the hill, out of sight. No one buried here would have chosen these biographies for themselves. The 8-year-old boy who fell from his wheelchair and fractured his skull. The 66-year-old who died of terminal burns from a faulty shower. The man who lived in Fernald for 47 unimaginable years before tuberculosis killed him. The resident who worked as a laundress in the hospital for 31 years. Each life story is conveyed with imperative respect. 'As you read,' cautions the website, 'please do so with the same spirit of kindness and communal reckoning that brought us to this work.' The project they created has a holy feel, especially in these times. After the dog and I would finish our pentagon, she liked to bound back across the bridge again. The bridge always made her feel young and, of course, there were biscuits waiting in the car. She knew she was adored. Every aging, fragile need of hers was tenderly met. Advertisement She did not know there was any other way. Elissa Ely is a psychiatrist.
