The classic 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” explored what was then the taboo subject of interracial dating and marriages. Now, 51 years later, a new play by Rhode …
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LARRY KESSLER
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4/19/18
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Israeli Architect Eliezer Armon will talk about “Revitalizing and Redesigning Challenger Cities in the 21st Century” on the evening of Wednesday, June 13. The following evening, Dr. Eitan …
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6/7/18
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BY JESSICA MURPHY
PROVIDENCE – “Kissing the ground” was never on Stanley Ulbrych’s agenda. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened, only minutes after returning …
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1/8/20
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Shabbat for me has never been about whether I turned the lights on or off, drove a car or refrained from caring for my vegetable garden. I love the many rituals and trappings of our Ashkenormative Shabbat – especially challah – but the 39 prohibitions, not so much.
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MARC RUSSMAN
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3/8/20
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In December 2019 I sat in a Newport living room with more than 25 members of our community, and I listened. The group was diverse in age, diverse in denomination, and diverse in politics and …
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ADAM GREENMAN
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10/2/20
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I love taking photos, though I seldom refer to myself as a photographer. There aren’t many titles I happily wear. More often than not, George will suffice.
Compared to painting …
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GEORGE M. GOODWIN
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8/5/21
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Rhode Island women have been committed philanthropists within the R.I. Jewish Federation system since 1945, when a Women’s Campaign was initiated as part of the federation. Leah Michaelson …
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CHERYL GREENFELD TEVEROW
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4/2/23
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(JTA) — She thought she was attacking an “Israel school” on behalf of “her people back in Palestine.” Instead an Indiana woman backed her car into a building being used …
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Andrew Lapin
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11/6/23
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The Women’s Alliance Endowment Fund (WAEF) of the Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island has been supporting the Jewish community since awarding its first …
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CLAIRE UZIEL
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3/1/24
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JTA – An Israeli executive has accused Avis of declining to accept his Israeli documents when he tried to rent a car.Dov Bergwerk, a senior vice president at the pharmaceuticals giant Teva, told the New York Observer that the reservations agent at …
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11/27/15
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