As a medical doctor working in Israel, Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha has had firsthand experience with the tragedies of the conflict between Jewish and Arab populations.

Friends, family and choir members gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Wednesday to honor Jim Thomas, who founded the US Slave Song Project’s Spirituals Choir.

The central questions at the heart of this year’s annual Hutchins Forum were shorter than in past years — but no less complicated.

Rabbi Lau-Lavie’s talk a few weeks ago as part of the Summer Speaker Series at the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center was entitled “Radical inclusion, a moral response to divine divisive extremes."

Oskar Eustis, the artistic director at the Public Theater in New York City, gave the final presentation of this season's Summer Speaker series at the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center.

Sen. Raphael Warnock’s impassioned sermon at the Tabernacle on Sunday married the story from the New Testament about the miracle of the loaves and fishes with present day firings of federal workers, cuts to Medicare and food aid and a large redistribution of wealth.