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JTA – Get ready: 5777 is arriving soon. And a new Jewish year means a fresh crop of top-notch Jewish books for kids.
This year, not one but two new Rosh Hashanah books are …
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PENNY SCHWARTZ
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9/16/16
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The Jewish Alliance board of directors began the year with aunique meeting hosted by new board chair Mitzi Berkelhammer on Sept. 8. By the end of the evening, the group had raised $181,000 to …
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JEWISH ALLIANCE STAFF
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9/16/16
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(Kveller via JTA) – The average age of childbearing in the United States is 26. For Jews, it’s a few years higher. Some of us Jewish moms, however, had our children significantly later …
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YVETTE ALT MILLER
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9/16/16
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U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. will be the guest speaker Sept. 25 at the fall meeting of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, The meeting begins at 2 p.m. at …
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JOSHUA JASPER
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9/16/16
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JTA – In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to …
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BEN SALES
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9/16/16
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September is now upon us, and summer’s end is in sight. You know what this means: the High Holy Days are coming!
The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island is partnering with synagogues …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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9/16/16
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Lindsay Kuhn has a passion for learning, and for doing, and it shows in her latest project.
Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, a little help from Brown …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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9/16/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution honoring the life and work of Elie Wiesel.
The resolution approved by voice vote on Sept. 12 …
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9/16/16
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BY ARIEL BROTHMAN
It took author Glenn Kurtz four years to track down the seven people seen in some 16 mm footage his grandfather shot in 1938 in Poland. Recorded in a small, predominantly …
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9/16/16
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About 30 of Rhode Island’s future Jewish leaders gathered at Camp JORI, in Wakefield, during the last weekend of August to celebrate their Judaism with prayer, friendship, and various …
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HILLARY SCHULMAN
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9/16/16
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