I’ve been privileged to spend the past year studying in Jerusalem. Everywhere I go, I feel a sense of love and brotherhood with my fellow Jews. The beauty of the entire land is like nothing …
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YAACOV SCHOCHET
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5/27/16
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The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s board room came alive Sept. 8 during a special news conference to celebrate the signing of the Holocaust-Genocide bill. The program featured …
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Marty Cooper
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9/16/16
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JTA – From a new audio version of “Hanukkah Bear” – a holiday favorite by National Jewish Book Award winner Eric A. Kimmel – to a novel for young teens set during the …
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PENNY SCHWARTZ
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12/9/16
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The American Medical Association believes that we may be taking our medicine for granted with potentially dangerous results. One study showed that some 65 percent of all Americans take one or …
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3/2/17
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QUESTION: My mother’s yahrtzeit falls on Yom Kippur. It is also a Saturday this year. Do I light a candle, or do I wait until Shabbat is over?
L.C., Providence
Dear L.C.,
This …
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By Michael D. Smith F.D./R.E., Shalom Memorial Chapel
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9/25/17
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Local teens participating in the March of the Living are photographed on the day of the 3K walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau. The educational experience, from April 8-22, included a week in Poland and a week in Israel.
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4/19/18
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The Cranston Senior Guild is planning a bus trip to Foxwoods on Wednesday, July 11. The cost of the trip is $25 per person. The price includes roundtrip deluxe motor coach bus, …
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6/7/18
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(JTA) – Anti-Semitic hate speech has risen dramatically since the start of the coronavirus crisis and must be rejected, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on freedom of religion or …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel …
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5/9/21
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PROVIDENCE – Two years after the idea was conceived, the Jewish Roots Project is now complete. The sculpture, shaped like a tree and encrusted in glass “gems,” now hangs prominently in the entryway of the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish Community Center. Each gem is unique, the creation of a Rhode Islander sometime during the pandemic. …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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1/10/22
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