On Feb. 24, the Rhode Island Senate passed a resolution expressing sympathy on the passing of Dr. Stanley M. Aronson. It was introduced by Senators Gayle Goldin, M. Teresa Paiva Weed, Donna M. Nesselbush, Paul W. Fogarty and Josh Miller.
Calling …
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2/26/15
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JTA – More than half of today’s American Jewish college students have witnessed or experienced an anti-Semitic incident, according to a new study.
Some 54 percent of the participants in the survey released Feb. 23 by the Louis D. Brandeis …
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2/26/15
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February made me shiver. Yes it was a cold month. But worse, it was a month of unneeded and unwarranted tragedies. While the world was calling actions in Europe anti-Semitic, a small out-of-the-way school in West Warwick was vandalized only because …
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Marty Cooper
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2/26/15
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told top Senate Democrats he regretted that his planned address to the U.S. Congress is being perceived as partisan, as President Barack Obama’s top security adviser said the …
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Ron Kampeas
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2/26/15
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Dear Sens. Reed and Whitehouse, and Reps. Cicilline and Langevin:
We are writing to you as members of a new organization of R.I. judges and lawyers – a group called “Judges and Lawyers for Israel.” This group, comprised of members of …
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2/26/15
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On Feb. 1, the fourth grade class at Temple Sinai participated in Project Linus. The project was organized through a joint effort of the congregation’s Sisterhood and the Social Action Committee.
Project Linus is a national organization with …
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2/26/15
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Everybody has a hero. And the David C. Isenberg Family Early Childhood Center is no different. These ECC heroes share a vision for excellence in early childhood education.
Plans are underway to honor two heroes, David C. Isenberg and Judy Ellen …
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JEWISH VOICE STAFF
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2/26/15
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On Dec. 9, 2014, the Rhode Island chapter of Hadassah installed a new group of officers. The program began with a look back at the many contributions the organization has made in areas such as health information, hospital programming, education and …
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2/26/15
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Shabbat across America will take on a global perspective in New Bedford when Rabbi Michael Schudrich, chief rabbi of Poland, speaks at Tifereth Israel Congregation March 13 and 14.
Chief rabbi of Poland since 2004, Schudrich served as rabbi of …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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2/26/15
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RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Chani Lerner-Mor’s political activism began on a street corner here in 1993.
The landmark Oslo Accords, ceding parts of the West Bank to Yassir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, had been signed recently. …
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Ben Sales
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2/26/15
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