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Dick Shapiro doesn’t have a smartphone. He doesn’t have a computer, which makes his desk look strangely empty. His company, East Greenwich-based Special Delivery, distributes periodicals across Rhode Island, but it has neither a website nor a social media presence.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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11/3/22
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Nearly a decade ago, when Emily Levy was 19 years old, she had an urgent meeting with her doctor. She had just been diagnosed with a severe case of Lyme disease.
Growing up in Rhode Island and …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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10/7/22
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EAST GREENWICH – David Barnett, the new rabbi at Temple Torah Yisrael, first embraced religion through music, learning at a young age to play both classical guitar and violin.
Barnett …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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9/12/22
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In mid-August, near the end of a busy growing season, Heather Coughlin put the finishing touches on a handmade sign. The sign is composed of rough planks and acrylic paint, and reads: “Garden of Eating.”
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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9/7/22
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Twenty years ago, Robin Kall Homonoff sat in front of a microphone and introduced her new radio show, “Reading With Robin.” A lifelong bibliophile and people-person, Kall had devised a simple formula: she invited authors to talk about their lives and work.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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8/4/22
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For 1,500 miles, Karen Krinsky drove her new truck up the interstate, wondering what she had gotten herself into. She had never run a food truck before. She’d never made ice cream, much less vegan ice cream. All Krinsky knew on that fateful day in 2010 was that she had just purchased a sizable used vehicle, and now she had to drive it from Boynton Beach, Florida, to Providence, Rhode Island.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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6/2/22
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NEWPORT – Capt. Jonathan Kabak actually sounds like a captain. He speaks in a resonant baritone, and every sentence is clear and complete.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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5/10/22
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To give you a sense of Rabbi Daniel Kripper’s life, consider his visit to Aruba. In 2013, Kripper was living in his native Argentina when he was invited to the Caribbean island to lead a seder …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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5/6/22
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Mark Binder still remembers the first “Chelm” story he ever published. The year was 1991, and Binder was the editor of the Jewish Herald newspaper.
“It was a Wednesday,” …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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4/1/22
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Naomi Baine still remembers her brush with human trafficking. She was about 9 years old, traveling alone to Israel for the first time, with a layover at London’s Heathrow Airport. She found a special room designed for kids, where a single attendant was watching.
Suddenly, a strange man entered the room. He claimed to be picking up his niece and gestured toward Baine. The man didn’t bear any obvious resemblance to her, but he spoke confidently, and the attendant seemed to believe him.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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4/1/22
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