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Diane Hurley succeeds Andrew Teitz as chair of Touro Synagogue Foundation

Newport, R.I. – The Touro Synagogue Foundation, a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to maintaining and preserving Touro Synagogue, the colonial Jewish cemetery, Patriots Park and promoting and teaching religious diversity, … more

8/28/14

Alliance funded Smart Classroom guides teaching and learning in Afula

Alliance Director of Jewish Learning Larry Katz and his wife, Marilyn, recently visited Afula’s Gavanim School, where an Alliance-funded Smart classroom guides teaching and learning. Katz observed a math lesson in one of three classrooms … more

3/27/14

Mothers Circle Annual Hanukkah party

On Tuesday evening December 3, a group of Mothers Circle alumnae and their families gathered in the Temple Emanu-El vestry for the fifth annual Mothers Circle Hanukkah party. Mothers Circle, a program created by the Jewish Outreach Institute and … more

Kit Haspel | 12/19/13

Young Jewish women with breast or ovarian cancer have support

PROVIDENCE – Sharsheret, Hebrew for “chain,” and the national Jewish response to breast cancer, will present a program on Sunday, Oct. 6, from 3 – 5 p.m., at Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., in Providence. more

9/12/13

Encaustics, prints and photography at Temple Habonim

The November/December show in the Gallery at Temple Habonim features works by three artists. Felicia Touhey, encaustic painter and printmaker, uses materials, process and manipulation in her creations. Her inspiration is nature – its lines, … more

11/7/14

Judge rules Touro Synagogue belongs to current worshipers

JTA — A federal judge on May 16 granted control of the country’s oldest synagogue to the Rhode Island congregation that worships there and not the building’s New York-based founding … more

5/27/16

Back row, left to right, Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser, Jayson and Kimberly Kane, Cantor Wendy Siegel. Front, Zackary, Jacoby and EmmaLyn Kane.

Cranston family hears the call of Judaism, converts

The Jewish people are not known for aggressive efforts to spread the Jewish faith; most people who are Jewish were born Jewish. But what about those who Judaism speaks to later in … more

ARIEL BROTHMAN | 8/4/16

New Hanukkah stamp features a hanukkiah

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new Hanukkah stamp for 2016. It depicts a hanukkiah (a menorah for Hanukkah) in a window through which one can see snow-covered branches. In … more

LARRY KATZ | 12/9/16

Delving deeper into Jewish history

Study is a central practice in Judaism, and in many ways there has never been a better time to approach Jewish texts and traditions. Yeshivas have expanded, online resources abound, and many … more

JOHN LANDRY | 3/2/17

Butler Hospital doctor at forefront ‘in the war on Alzheimer’s’

“A tsunami of Alzheimer’s” is occurring across the world today, Dr. Stephen Salloway told the audience packed into the Sopkin Auditorium during The Miriam Hospital Women’s … more

BARBARA HOROVITZ BROWN | 11/9/17