The Afula Branch of the Haifa Rape Crisis Center will share the professional practices it uses to support victims of sexual assault, and to teach and promote appropriate education in the community, …
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3/6/22
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Having always loved bookstores, I can’t imagine a world without them. Surely my chairmanship of Temple Beth-El’s splendid Braude Library would already have come to an end! So much for …
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GEORGE M. GOODWIN
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3/1/24
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It’s Elul, the month of introspection, and August has ended. Summer is over, and the school year is beginning. It’s time to prepare for the High Holy Days and Sukkot. And, way back when there was a separate Women’s Division of the General …
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GERALDINE S. FOSTER
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9/3/15
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A confession. I mourn the demise of the card catalogs, those sturdy oak cabinets once found in libraries large and small. Need to find an author, a book, information on a particular topic? A little white square on the front of each drawer advertised …
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Geraldine S. Foster
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4/9/15
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The members of the Barrington Interfaith Clergy Association strive to bring people of diverse faith traditions together to nurture their shared spiritual bond. Everyone benefits when people of different faith traditions (or no faith tradition) are …
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1/2/15
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Our family can definitely be called “the People of the Book,” especially when that book is the haggadah. Over the decades, from the earliest Providence Katz family seders at the home of my grandparents, Mollie and Harry Katz, with its eleven …
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Ruth Page
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3/27/14
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In 1877, a number of Jewish Freemasons living in Providence decided to join together to form a new Masonic lodge, Redwood Lodge Number 35. According to Redwood Lodge’s tradition, the group’s leader, Myer Noot, envisioned a lodge that would be …
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Shai Afsai
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9/30/13
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As we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of the digital age, more things have crossed into the internet space. For weddings, invitations can only hold so much information and with the rising cost …
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STEPHANIE ROSS
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1/20/17
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The public is invited to join in events on June 9 as the Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance (JMA) brings its 13th Annual Ride 2 Remember (R2R) to Rhode Island to increase awareness of, and raise funds for, …
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5/25/17
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A film about Israel by Spielberg? Yes, but by Nancy, Steven’s sister.
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., the Israel Desk of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island will screen …
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LARRY KATZ
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11/9/17
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