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After reading “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” the K/1 class created ‘chicka boom boom’ Aleph Bet trees.

Temple Torat Yisrael 2018 graduates

6/7/18

Three Jerusalem monuments: Reconstructed image of the Second Temple; Church of the Holy Sepulchre; Dome of the Rock shrine.

Judaism, philosopher and rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, emphasizes holiness in time. While that might work well for philosophers, Jews over the centuries have worked hard to make spaces holy … more

JOHN LANDRY | 1/8/20

Temple Emanu-El celebrates the installation of Rabbi Michael Fel

More than 400 congregants and community members celebrated the installation of Michael Fel as Temple Emanu-El’s fifth rabbi in its 95-year history. The celebration, during the weekend of Feb. … more

RACHEL ALEXANDER LEVY | 3/8/20

Bertha Pappenheim, a descendant of Glickl Hamel, poses as Glikl for this portrait painted by the artist Leopold Pilichowski.

How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

BOSTON ( JTA ) – More than 350 years ago, a plague took a deadly toll on Hamburg, Germany. As the High Holidays approached, fear and panic set in and many of the city’s Jewish families fled. … more

Penny Schwartz | 7/28/20

HSAs are a powerful, but overlooked, retirement asset

There are a lot of ways to grow wealth in a tax-efficient manner, but a Health Savings Account (HSA) is still the best – and most overlooked – deal in the tax code. That deal comes in … more

8/6/21

Mitzi Berkelhammer with her granddaughters.

Cardozo Society delves into the 8 Jewish Supreme Court justices

PROVIDENCE – The Cardozo Society, an affinity group of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, met March 22 for the first time in several years. And if attendance was any indication, the … more

FRAN OSTENDORF | 4/2/23

5 things to watch for at the AIPAC confab

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Here are five things to watch for at this year’s annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is taking place here March 19-22: It’s Yoooooooooge. Organizers are expecting 18,000 … more

Ron Kampeas | 3/18/16

Jewish educators get the story from Rabbi Goldie Milgram

Rabbi Goldie Milgram, the esteemed mentor of some of the nation’s leading Jewish storytellers, conducted the presentations at the Joseph and Leba Zelniker Educators Conference in mid-November at the Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence. … more

Larry Katz | 11/27/15

The high cost of back-to-school prep

From backpacks and notebooks to markers and pens, children and parents across New England have begun their back-to-school shopping. Or have they? In an effort to save money, many parents are reusing school supplies and stocking up throughout … more

STEPHANIE ROSS | 8/6/15

Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood star, secret scientist

The annual German Inventors’ Day is held on Nov. 9, the birthday of Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, a.k.a. Hedy Lamarr. Kiesler made her film debut in 1930, at age 17. Two years later she earned notoriety for her nude romp through the woods in … more

Toby Rossner | 12/4/14