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James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Absent from many accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning work is the contribution made by their …
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Toby Rossner
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2/26/15
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Over the weekend of Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser of Temple Sinai in Cranston took five confirmation students on a trip to Washington, D.C. During those 48 hours, they heard a briefing at the Israeli Embassy about U.S.-Israel …
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2/26/15
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Taking advantage of a narrow break in otherwise snowy weather, some 60 members of the community showed up at the social hall of the Dwares JCC the evening of Feb. 18. Their reason for braving the weather was to hear what Professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig, …
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HOWARD BROWN
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2/26/15
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Founded in 1951, the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, collects, shares and interprets all aspects of our Jewish communal history – from colonial times to the present. The Association’s office and archive, located on the lower level of …
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2/26/15
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Founded in 1951, the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, collects, shares and interprets all aspects of our Jewish communal history – from colonial times to the present. The Association’s office and archive, located on the lower level of …
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2/26/15
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Grace Beiser Novick shares a photo, left, taken Feb. 13 by her 12-year-old granddaughter, Yaara Beiser. Yaara lives in the Ramot Bet section of Jerusalem, where the photo was taken, and is the daughter of Tehila and Reuben Beiser. Reuben …
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2/26/15
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Camp JORI is celebrating its bar mitzvah this summer. It’s hard to believe that Rhode Island’s only Jewish overnight camp has been at the Worden’s Pond location in Wakefield for 13 years already. Ronni Saltzman Guttin, director, shares that …
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Irina Missiuro
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2/26/15
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JNS.org – Most Jewish women have at least one childhood memory of wearing a Queen Esther costume for Purim. Esther’s image is ubiquitous in the collective Jewish consciousness, not only as the character in the Purim story who …
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Alina Dain Sharon
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2/26/15
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RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA) – When Isaac Herzog learned that his Zionist Union party had won the election with 32 percent of the vote, he posted a triumphant status update on Facebook.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had failed, Herzog wrote on …
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Ben Sales
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2/26/15
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Many of us are passionate about our craft, but musicians are some of the luckiest people because they are entirely enchanted by their noble pursuit. The members of the Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra have chosen a field that evokes …
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Irina Missiuro
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2/26/15
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