(JTA) — The first thing Carl Reiner does every morning is pick up the paper and read the obituary section to check if he’s named there.
“If I’m not, …
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Curt Schleier
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6/9/17
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The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center’s new website is now up and running.
2017 has been a big year for SBHEC: a new space, an exciting fundraising event and the …
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LEV POPLOW
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9/25/17
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There are plenty of options for travel to Israel. Local synagogues organize trips. So do nonprofit organizations in the United States and around the world. Travel agencies put together trips, too. …
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JEWISH VOICE STAFF
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4/19/18
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Beginning in February, the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island will partner with Ripples Swim School to provide children and youth swimming lessons at the Dwares Jewish Community Center in …
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1/12/19
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(JTA)– The Jewish Student Union sign at a Boston-area high school was vandalized with a swastika.
The swastika was discovered Friday at Brookline High School, a public high school in a near …
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Marcy Oster
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5/21/19
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(JTA) – A record 2.32 million people from around the word visited the sites of the former Nazi camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in 2019.
The total is about 170,000 more than in 2018, which also …
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MARCY OSTER
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1/8/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Most of the votes in Israel have been counted from Monday’s election [March 2], and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has the most seats in the …
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MARCY OSTER
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3/8/20
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WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Old-fashioned postcards remain one of the best ways to get out the vote in underserved communities. Who knew?
I picked up this nugget while reporting a story this week …
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Ron Kampeas
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7/24/20
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On the eve of Passover and during Ramadan, Israel is facing both a war with Palestinian terror and an all-out propaganda war in some of our elite colleges and universities.
In one recent lecture …
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MOSES MORDECAI TWERSKY
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4/2/23
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“South Providence Girls: A Clique in Time,” by Marian Leah Knapp and The Junior Debs (Loagy Bay Press, 2023), takes readers back in time to 1938, when a group of Jewish girls were …
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SARAH GREENLEAF
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3/1/24
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