EAST GREENWICH – Meredith (Merry) Drench died May 17. A graduate of Boston and Northeastern universities, she earned her doctorate at Union Institute and University and was a professor of physical therapy at Northeastern. She was an author and a …
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MARLBORO, Mass. – Richard Lipson died May 29. He was a broadcast engineer who spent most of his professional career as chief engineer of WLVI Channel 56 in Boston, Mass.
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PORTSMOUTH – Evelyn Lowenstein died June 2. She was the wife of the late Gerhard S. “Gerry” Lowenstein.
Born in Providence on Nov. 21, 1918 to the late David and Elizabeth (Bloomberg) Isserlis, she lived in Fall River, Mass. before moving …
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Lloyd Spindell, of South Orange and Boca Raton, Fla., died May 16, 2013. Born in Providence, son of the late Simon and Jeanette Spindell, he graduated with honors from Brown University
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – In 1982, Frank Lautenberg was running for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate spot at a time when Democrats in the state were down on their political fortunes.
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PROVIDENCE – A collection of works by some of our community’s youngest artists – children ages 3, 4 and 5 who attend the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s Early Childhood Center is on display at gallery (401) at the Alliance. The …
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SCHOLARSHIP – Bennett George Schiff receives a Temple Beth-El Brotherhood college scholarship from Brotherhood President John Catania, center, and Men of Reform Judaism Past President Stuart Aaronson.
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TEFILLIN CEREMONY – Carmi Mandel, son of Rabbi Marc and Jackie Mandel, of Touro Synagogue, had his tefillin ceremony at Touro on April 28, which was also Lag Ba’Omer. This ceremony happens before a boy becomes a bar mitzvah and helps him …
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AWARD – Nathan Japhet, a 2004 graduate of Providence Hebrew Day School and a 2008 graduate of Maimonides, won the “Samuel and Emily Granet Lemler Memorial Award for Excellence in Pre-Med” and the “Ya’akov Yehuda Nirenstein Memorial …
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SCHOLARSHIP – Peter Shore accepts a Temple Beth-El Brotherhood college scholarship on behalf of his daughter Heather Shore on May 11.
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