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PROVIDENCE – Central Falls Rep. Shelby Maldonado is relocating to New York City to become the Hispanic outreach director of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). She has resigned the District 56 seat in the House of Representatives, which she has held since January 2015, effective immediately, according to a statement issued by the House.
A second-year student at Roger Williams University School of Law, Maldonado intends to transfer to a New York law school.
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BY JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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12/17/19
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – It’s the perennial anomaly of Jewish voter surveys: Vast majorities feel an attachment to Israel, but relatively few are thinking about the Jewish state when they cast …
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RON KAMPEAS
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12/10/19
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(JTA) – Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in the defacing of the historic Sixth & I synagogue in Washington, D.C.
The arrest of Luis Montsinos came Dec. 2, shortly after the …
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12/9/19
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NEW YORK – Hazon, the Jewish Lab for Sustainability, has reached a record 90th participant in its national Hazon Seal of Sustainability program, a comprehensive education and outreach program designed to help Jewish organizations to reduce waste and encourage healthier living.
“This has been the year that a critical mass of people have started to really take the climate crisis seriously. It’s an issue in the U.S. elections. It’s an issue in the U.K. elections. Joining the Hazon Seal of Sustainability program demonstrates that Jewish institutions are stepping up to take responsibility and have committed to making changes.
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12/9/19
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(JTA) – Wildfires across California have led to the evacuations of several Jewish institutions in the Los Angeles area and communities in the northern part of the state.
The Getty Fire in …
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10/31/19
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(JTA) — The U.S. Senate has launched a bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism.
The task force was launched this week to coincide with the first anniversary of the anti-Semitic …
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Marcy Oster
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10/30/19
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(JTA) – Eleven memorial candles stood on a table at the start of the public memorial service for the attack one year ago on the Tree of Life synagogue building.
Family members of the 11 …
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MARCY OSTER
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10/27/19
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(JTA) – Students at a Jewish day school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh sent messages to marginalized groups and communities that have been victims of mass shootings to mark the …
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10/27/19
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PITTSBURGH (JTA) – I have been the rabbi of the New Light Congregation in Pittsburgh for nine years. This year, at Kol Nidre services on Yom Kippur, I preached about calm.
Our congregation …
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RABBI JONATHAN PERLMAN
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10/27/19
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(JTA) – Fliers bearing white nationalist language and hate speech were circulated on Rosh Hashanah to businesses. “The hate literature was not only offensive in relation to the Jewish …
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10/2/19
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