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Crafting in the art barn is a great way to spend the afternoon.

It's July in Rhode Island and the temperatures are soaring. But camp carries on. Photographer Glenn Osmundson caught some of the summer fun at Camp JORI in Wakefield. more

7/17/24

JCC aqua fitness classes more and more popular

Water fitness is popular at the Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence. So popular, in fact, that beginning July 22, you will have to sign up to participate in the Monday morning Deep Water … more

7/17/24

Sandra Laub performing “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”

Revised ‘Picking Up Stones' at FringePVD

“Providence has emerged as New England’s creative capital,” declared a recent CNN Travel posting, adding that it is “one of the USA’s most impressive cities for … more

Bob Abelman | 7/11/24

Good Energy?

How times have changed: An advertisement in the Herald from July 1975 extols the virtues of nuclear power. The company in question was Narragansett Electric, which established the Yankee Rowe Nuclear … more

7/8/24

Plans to create a Community Hevra Kadisha in R.I. move forward

PROVIDENCE – About 50 people gathered in a circle in the social hall at the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish Community Center on May 30 to talk about death, specifically Jewish rituals … more

MARSHA MILLER | 7/8/24

Alliance, other groups receive $400,000 grant to fight hate crimes

The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office has been awarded a Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program grant to increase education on reporting and combating hate crimes across … more

EMMA NEWBERY | 7/8/24

Maor Mintz and family. Photo take before Oct. 7.

Thank you, Rhode Island

Dear Rhode Island. I was very happy and touched to see my name in the Jewish Rhody this week [June 2024]. It warms my heart to know you still remember me, even 10 years after my last summer at … more

7/8/24

Rhode Island Foundation offers grants to R.I. Jewish groups

PROVIDENCE – Jewish community charitable organizations, synagogues and day schools serving the greater Providence area have until July 12 to apply for more than $40,000 in grants through … more

7/8/24

TMH Women’s Association Officers 2024 (left to right): Amy Page DiBlasio, Fredda Sharfstein, Paula Cofone (President), Susan Guerra (Installing Officer), Marianne Litwin, Ellen Golden, Nancy Riffle, Barbara Kahn. Not Pictured: Mary Gagnon, Celia Harms, Sara Masri

The Miriam Hospital Women’s Association holds annual meeting

SEEKONK , Mass. – The Miriam Hospital Women’s Association held its 127th Annual Meeting and awarded its 39th Annual Recognition Award on June 5, at Ledgemont Country … more

BARBARA BROWN | 7/8/24

Rick Granoff and director Tony Goldwyn at the movie premiere.

Autism treatment inspires movie

“Ezra” follows Max , a stand-up comedian who lives with his father Stan and struggles to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his soon-to-be ex-wife. The movie stars Bobby Carnnavale, … more

7/8/24