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Back in my younger days, if I had gone to any Jewish gathering and asked people of any age if they or their family had any connection to HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the answer almost …
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GERALDINE S. FOSTER
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11/8/18
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The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island kicked off its 2020 Annual Campaign on Sept. 15 with another successful Super Sunday. With the help of enthusiastic volunteers and all the donors who answered their calls, the Alliance has raised more than $64,000 to date.
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SETH FINKLE
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9/17/19
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Jewish Collaborative Services’ Jewish Eldercare of Rhode Island (JERI) program, in coordination with Friends of Jewish Seniors, has delivered Hanukkah gifts to over 200 Jewish residents of …
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12/16/20
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How's your challah?
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On Feb. 11, more than 100 women gathered on Zoom for the Great Rhode Island Virtual Challah Bake. The annual challah-baking event often fills a room with singing, dancing and noise. Click here to see a photo gallery of some of this year's creations.
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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2/17/21
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For more than five years, Jewish Collaborative Services’ Kesher program, in collaboration with a small group of generous donors from a Providence synagogue, have partnered to help support …
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10/10/21
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In 2010, Cranston native Nicholas Lowinger rocked the charity world, and delighted the media, with his nonprofit Gotta Have Sole Foundation, which provides homeless children with new shoes. Lowinger was only 13 at the time, and Gotta Have Sole began as a Bar Mitzvah service project.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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4/2/23
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If you would like to better understand why young Jews are becoming alienated from Israel, and even from the mainstream Jewish community, watch “Israelism,” a documentary released last …
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NINA TANNENWALD
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3/1/24
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NEW YORK (JTA) – The Pew Research Center poll released last week, surveying attitudes among Israeli citizens confirms what many of us who work on Israeli issues already knew: Israel is a deeply divided society, first and foremost between its …
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DANIEL SOKATCH
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3/18/16
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BOSTON – Some 1,200 people from throughout New England gathered Nov. 11 for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) New England Region Annual Dinner at the Westin Waterfront Hotel. The dinner – which has become one of the local Jewish …
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12/11/15
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MIDDLETOWN – It wasn’t much of a beach day. But it was a good day for a book. And about 125 people came out for Hadassah’s fifth annual Books on the Beach event at the Atlantic Beach Club on Aug. 11.
Now a much-anticipated tradition, Books …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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8/21/15
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