How do we tell our children about the worst crime of the 20th century – the Holocaust? What is the right age to tell them how the Nazis systematically murdered two-thirds of European Jewry, …
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LEV POPLOW
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9/20/18
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Camp JORI concluded another successful summer on Aug. 12. But JORI’s camping season did not end there. Camp JORI joined forces with Brown University and Camp …
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9/7/18
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For 10 years, the book club at Wingate Residences, on the East Side of Providence, has met monthly in the community’s library to discuss nonfiction, classics, modern-day memoirs and …
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KATHERINE WARTELL
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8/9/18
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Wednesday, July 21, dawned as a beautiful summer morning, the kind of day when most Rhode Islanders would go to the beach if they could. Instead, approximately 125 women went to Ledgemont Country …
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LEV POPLOW
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8/9/18
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PROVIDENCE – Some 1,200 Jews from all over the U.S. and other nations gathered at the Rhode Island Convention Center July 31-Aug. 5 for the National Jewish Retreat.
The retreat is a …
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PATRICIA RASKIN
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8/9/18
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JTA – Like many heavily Orthodox sections of Brooklyn, Borough Park has been served for decades by an all-male volunteer ambulance corps called Hatzalah.
The corps caters to a religious Jewish …
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CURT SCHLEIER
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7/11/18
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This year’s Providence Hebrew Day School Academic Fair was all about safety. The annual event took place on June 12 and was held in partnership with the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode …
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6/22/18
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On June 11, the Jewish Alliance’s 33rd annual Dwares JCC Golf Classic took place at the Warwick Country Club. The event was sponsored by nearly 40 local businesses and individuals, with …
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STEPHANIE HAGUE
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6/22/18
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I can’t believe it really is time to say le’hitraot (not goodbye, just see you soon).
Two years ago, I left everything I knew behind to embark on a journey to an …
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TSLIL REICHMAN
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6/22/18
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