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The book of Genesis begins with God deciding to create human beings to rule all the other created things: “Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of …
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11/6/23
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The Hebrew month of Tishrei is one long marathon of Jewish rituals. We blasted into this month with Rosh Hashanah. We raised ourselves up with the White Fast of Yom Kippur. We entered the comfort of …
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10/5/23
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A cartoon that once appeared in the New Yorker pictures a man saying to his therapist, “But I love the past, I grew up there!” How true that is.
Let’s face it, as Rhode …
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9/1/23
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This week’s Torah portion has an odd name. It is called “Ekev,” a word that in Hebrew means “Because.”
Like all of the Torah portions, Ekev gets its name …
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8/4/23
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Our portion this Shabbat is named after Aaron’s grandson, Pinchas, who defended God’s honor in the previous portion, and was promised that the Priestly Dynasty would remain in this family …
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7/7/23
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In April , I had the pleasure of seeing the Arctic Playhouse’s production of “The 39 Steps” (my spouse, Annie, was in the cast), a comedy based on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 …
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6/1/23
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Monday and Tuesday, May 8-9, brings one of the oddest holidays of the Jewish year.
Lots of people can tell you that Lag B’Omer is the 33rd day of the counting of the omer (didn’t you …
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5/4/23
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The festival of Passover is known by two names. Our sages called it “the time of our freedom,” because it is our celebration for God gifting us our exodus from Mizraim (Egypt). Of course, …
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4/2/23
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It was either a brilliant editorial decision or just a wonderful coincidence that this issue of Jewish Rhode Island, dedicated to Home and Garden, coincides with the Torah portion of …
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3/3/23
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June 1967
Dear Mom and Dad,
Camp is FABULOUS! Actually, my amazing journey started before I even got here.
The plane from San Antonio made a stop in New Orleans and blew a tire while …
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2/3/23
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