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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – While preparing for Sukkot in drought-ridden California, I hoped that the holiday’s joy had not dried up alongside much of the state’s water supply. For a holiday also called “the season of our joy,” one …
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EDMON J. RODMAN
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10/1/15
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When there are children around and it’s time to have some fun, we’ve got the list for you. Are the grandkids in town? Do your kids have some free time? Fall is a perfect time for outdoor activities. Then, the weather turns and what do you do? …
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Fran Ostendorf
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10/1/15
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If you don’t have a sukkah in your yard, you’ve seen one at the synagogue or perhaps in your neighbor’s yard. Even Roger Williams Park Zoo has a sukkah for the holiday. It’s located across from the Meller-Danforth Education Center. We’re …
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10/1/15
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JTA – Israelis get around the globe, as anyone who has traveled to Thailand, Goa or Patagonia knows. Writers, too, are known for living outside the lands of their birth – Czech-born Milan Kundera lives in Paris and writes in French; Jhumpa …
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BETH KISSILEFF
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10/1/15
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The Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island and its newly formed Leadership Development Task Force held an end-of-summer cookout with a quarterly board meeting on Sept. 17 at The Phyllis Siperstein Tamarisk Assisted Living Residence in Warwick. …
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DIANE DOWIOT
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10/1/15
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Experience An Evening of Jewish Renaissance like never before! Many certainly remember The Judge Marjorie Yashar and Dr. James Yashar Evening of Jewish Renaissance, which annually attracted hundreds of people to presentations on Jewish life, …
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Larry Katz
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10/1/15
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Where but in Jerusalem would the UN declare a cease-fire so that nuns could search for the lost dentures of a dying woman? Where else would installing a toilet become an international incident? Where else would an Arab on one side of the barbed wire …
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Larry Katz
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10/1/15
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – On Sept. 20, more than 80 of the Jewish Alliance’s major donors gathered at the Providence Performing Arts Center for the Pacesetter and Lion of Judah Reception, where they saw “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.” Hosting …
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HILLARY SCHULMAN
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10/1/15
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NEW YORK (JTA) – This is a momentous week, not only because it is Judaism’s most sacred season, but also because as we welcome 5776, we in North America are also welcoming Pope Francis, one of the most inspiring religious leaders of …
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RABBI RICK JACOBS
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10/1/15
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JTA – Pope Francis made an unscheduled visit in Philadelphia to a statue that refutes centuries of anti-Semitic imagery in Catholic art.
The pope and his friend, Buenos Aires Rabbi Abraham Skorka, on Sept. 27 visited the campus of St. …
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10/1/15
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