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PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s own “Reading with Robin,” aka Robin Kall Homonoff, will host “An Evening of Authors,” on Wednesday, Sept. 25, from 6 – 10 p.m.; registration begins at 6 p.m. and the program begins at 7 p.m.
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9/12/13
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PROVIDENCE – In tribute to the Jewish heritage of The Miriam Hospital, Jeff Brier, chair of the hospital’s Jewish Tradition Advisory Committee and past chair of The Miriam Hospital and The Miriam Hospital Foundation boards of trustees, blew the …
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9/12/13
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PROVIDENCE – The Community Relations Council of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island will host a seminar on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA), which has been nicknamed “Obamacare.”
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Marty Cooper
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9/12/13
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The start of the Jewish New Year is filled with holy days, among them four foundational celebrations: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simhat Torah-Shemini Atzeret.
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
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8/30/13
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(JTA) – Everyone knows that an ocean separates Israel and the United States. Yet after three days in New York recently, I realized how big that ocean really is.
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Nurit Canetti
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8/30/13
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(JNS.org) – Jordanian Prime Minister Abdalla Ensour and his cabinet approved a new plan to trade water with Israel. In a new Red Sea desalination project expected to cost $1 billion, Jordan will sell part of the resulting water to Israel in …
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8/30/13
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – Naftali Bennett, Israel’s religious services minister, has unveiled a temporary platform for non-Orthodox prayer at Robinson’s Arch, the archaeological site adjacent to the Western Wall plaza used by egalitarian groups.
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Ben Sales
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8/30/13
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NEWPORT – In 1763 in Newport, a lovely new building was dedicated to accommodate the growing Jewish congregation. Today, 250 years later, that same building, Touro Synagogue, still stands as the oldest synagogue in America; yet, it is not a …
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Sam Shamoon and Linda Shamoon
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8/30/13
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NEW YORK (JTA) – In 5773, the religious wars just would not go away.
In Israel, elections extending Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister delivered big wins to two anti-Orthodox-establishment upstarts, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. …
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Uriel Heilman
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8/30/13
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In time for the 2013 High Holy Days season, JNS.org has compiled a list of the top five popular songs to put you in the mood for introspection, repentance, and renewal – and a few just to make you smile.
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Binyamin Kagedan
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8/30/13
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