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Each Sunday, David Mandelbaum drives a load of sandwiches to Crossroads Rhode Island, the largest homeless-services organization in the state. But before he leaves the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish …
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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3/3/23
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At age 23, Elihay Skital already has a wide range of interests. He loves to sing. He loves working with kids. He is fluent in Hebrew and English, and he’s learning Spanish. He loves to cook – give him any excuse, and he’ll fry up bimuelos (fritters), with a side of sour cream.
This is one reason Skital has embraced his new role as Rhode Island’s shaliach, or emissary, from Israel:…
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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2/3/23
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One day in 2008, Noah Lubin walked into an art gallery in Jerusalem. He was feeling “brazen.”
He knew the place, at least from the outside. He’d walked past the display window many times. But on this day, he happened to be carrying a portfolio of his artwork.
He knew he shouldn’t go in. This wasn’t how artists met art dealers.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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1/5/23
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Dick Shapiro doesn’t have a smartphone. He doesn’t have a computer, which makes his desk look strangely empty. His company, East Greenwich-based Special Delivery, distributes periodicals across Rhode Island, but it has neither a website nor a social media presence.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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11/3/22
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NEWPORT – Capt. Jonathan Kabak actually sounds like a captain. He speaks in a resonant baritone, and every sentence is clear and complete.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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5/10/22
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For decades, Alan Bernstein has lived two lives. One is largely orchestral, the other is pure jazz.
One life, the orchestral, takes place in classrooms; the other is on stages. One involves students, most of them young; the other caters to adults.
Bernstein, 69, has always managed to balance these two lives and to excel at both: He is an acclaimed instrumentalist who has performed in the Newport area since the 1980s; the Newport Public Schools named him Teacher of the Year in 2013; and he received a Distinguished Music Educator’s Award from Yale University in 2007.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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3/3/22
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When Becca Bender arrived in Providence in 2018, the staff at the Rhode Island Historical Society was euphoric. In all its 196 years, RIHS had never employed a film archivist.
Watch to the end for historical footage of the Jewish Community Center.
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ROBERT ISENBERG
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10/12/21
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James B. Rosenberg was recently honored for his 50 years as a Reform rabbi during a service at Temple Habonim, in Barrington, the congregation that he has been connected with for 47 of those 50 years, including 33 years as the congregation’s rabbi.
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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6/3/21
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When Cantor Jeff Cornblatt opens a side door into Congregation B’nai Israel’s expansive synagogue in Woonsocket, visitors quickly become aware that the building is a gorgeous, confident, …
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HANNAH ALTMAN
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4/9/21
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Alan Rosenberg retired on Dec. 1, 2020, leaving behind a nearly 43-year career in journalism at the Providence Journal.
Originally from Chicago, Rosenberg graduated from the Medill School of …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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2/5/21
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