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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On our last night in Israel, the participants in the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s Israel Solidarity Mission were in Hostages Square, speaking to the friends and family members of …
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E. LYDIA FASCIA WONG
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3/1/24
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(JTA) — Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their families will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.”
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Letters to the editor
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3/1/24
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Kudos to Charles Bakst for his illuminating, insightful article re Fall River’s Temple Beth El (February 2024) in its glorious days of yore. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the …
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Letters to the editor
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3/1/24
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I set foot in Israel for the first time in June 1965. Having just turned 21 and looking forward to my senior year at Columbia come September, I was to spend most of my summer volunteering at …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/1/24
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WEDDING – Susan and Michael Rodrigues of Cranston and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are pleased to announce the marriage of their son Eli Ross Rodrigues to Anna Jane Karan on June 3, 2023, at The …
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3/1/24
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At the end of January, I attended a seder on Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish new year for trees. The 15th of Shevat marks a turning point, when underneath the cold air, the sap of the trees is rising, …
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Patricia Raskin
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3/1/24
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Surely I can’t be the first to note the close spelling of “Hamas” and the villainous “Haman,” who is so evil that we use rattles to drown out his very name.
But the …
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Mike Fink
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3/1/24
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Having always loved bookstores, I can’t imagine a world without them. Surely my chairmanship of Temple Beth-El’s splendid Braude Library would already have come to an end! So much for …
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GEORGE M. GOODWIN
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3/1/24
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Fifteen years ago, a fifth-grade teacher at a charter school had a vision for bringing the scope of the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust across to her fifth-grade students. That teacher was …
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Larry Kessler
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3/1/24
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