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5/13/21
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JTA – On Thursday evening, as I was just about to close my computer, I saw the news alert from The New York Times: “Breaking News: At least 15 people are dead and dozens are injured after …
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RABBI ROBYN FRISCH
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5/9/21
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(JTA) – Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel …
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5/9/21
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(JTA) — Long before COVID-19 arrived in Israel, devastating Israel’s Hasidic communities, the annual Lag b’Omer gathering at Mount Meron was a moment of release for Israel’s …
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Ben Sales
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4/30/21
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(JTA) — At least 45 people were crushed to death and at least 150 wounded Thursday night in a stampede during a celebration that drew tens of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews to the northern Israeli mountain village of Meron.
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BEN SALES
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4/30/21
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Many Rhode Islanders spent over a week in April participating in programs centered on Israel, ranging from food, music, children and adult activities to a Netflix drama, the unfortunate …
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LARRY KATZ
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4/21/21
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In “Pirkei Avot,” it states, “Your house should be open wide, and you should make the poor members of your household.”
For many of us, our inclination is to help our …
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JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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4/9/21
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Rhode Islanders can join Israelis and Jews worldwide in celebrating Yom Ha’Zikaron, Israeli remembrance day, April 13-14, and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israeli independence day, April 14-15, with a …
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LARRY KATZ
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4/9/21
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JTA – Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to break Israel’s two-year …
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BEN SALES
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4/9/21
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When Passover last year became the first Jewish holiday to take place since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Jews the world over struggled with novel …
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LARRY LUXNER
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3/17/21
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