JERUSALEM – As a participant in Camp JORI’s Israel trip, I didn’t know what to expect. To my surprise, the program went far beyond my expectations. The opportunity to spend four weeks in Israel was offered to teens, ages 15 and 16, who had …
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Noah Prizant
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NEWPORT – More than 400 people crowded into two venues in Newport – Touro Synagogue and the Newport Community Church next door – to hear Elena Kagan, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, deliver the keynote address to celebrate the …
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Sam Shamoon and Linda Shamoon
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PROVIDENCE – Mike Greenberg, co-host of ESPN’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” will be the featured speaker at a community event sponsored by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.
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PROVIDENCE – Professor Kristin Rosler doubles as the “Science Mom” at the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, a day school for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students. Rosler has some suggestions for how to start a science …
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Michele Lang
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MIDDLETOWN – One hundred seventy-seven Rhode Island Hadassah members, friends and book lovers – all dressed in their summer finery – gathered for an afternoon of renewing friendships, catching up on one another’s news and, yes, enjoying …
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Toby Rossner
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PROVIDENCE – Effective Sept. 13, Nancy Kirsch, executive editor of The Jewish Voice, will leave the paper. After Kirsch announced her resignation earlier this summer, Jeffrey Savit, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Alliance of …
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FALL RIVER, Mass. – Temple Beth El of Fall River, an independent Conservative congregation, has a new husband-and-wife leadership team.
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NEW YORK – Oded Ezer, 41, a critically acclaimed Israeli graphic artist and typographer, will bring his talents to the Rhode Island School of Design for a residency this upcoming fall semester, according to a press release from the Israel …
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BOSTON – Genealogy is like reading a detective story about your own family.
My first revelation occurred more than a decade ago when I searched census records for my father’s family. My father liked to say that Youngwood was originally …
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Susan Youngwood
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Yiddishkeit (Jewish feelings, attitudes) was front and center for participants at the eighth annual National Jewish Retreat in Alexandria, earlier this month.
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Patricia Raskin
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