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Adults know exercise is important to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers, to control weight, strengthen bones and muscles, and to improve mental health and mood. … more

KARA MARZIALI | 1/5/17

They arrived as strangers, left as friends

A few months ago, Seth Finkle, director of Camp Haverim and teen programming coordinator for the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, approached area youth groups and regional organizations about … more

DAVID PEROLMAN | 1/5/17

Student in grades 1-3 perform in the choir at the pre-Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 21. The choir was under the direction of Rabbi Avrohom Jakubowicz and Mrs. Shiffy Yukdowsky.

Students celebrate Hanukkah at Providence Hebrew Day School [Photo gallery]

1/5/17

PHDS is building students’ tomorrow today

In late November, Providence Hebrew Day School officially launched “Building Tomorrow Today,” a campaign to raise $2.3 million to renovate the school’s facilities. Current and … more

JEWISH VOICE STAFF | 1/5/17

Hanukkah spirit shines forth at Torat Yisrael’s joyous celebration

The joyful holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, inspired Temple Torat Yisrael’s Cohen Religious School to host a celebration with the school children and the local Jewish … more

DORI ADLER | 1/5/17

Wearing my ‘ugly’ Hanukkah sweater is really a symbol of freedom

On the first night of Hanukkah, my wife gave me a sweater that was definitely the match to any ugly Christmas sweater I’d ever seen or heard about. In bright royal blue and white, … more

NOEL RUBINTON | 1/5/17

Dan Gamm with volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket.

Volunteers are crucial to our community

The Talmud teaches us to “… sustain the non-Jewish poor with the Jewish poor, visit the non-Jewish sick with the Jewish sick, and bury the non-Jewish dead with the Jewish dead … more

STEPHANIE HAGUE | 1/5/17

Kollel Center moves

The Kollel Center for Jewish Studies is on the move. According to Rabbi Raphie Schochet, Rosh Kollel, the Kollel Center is moving to the Providence Hebrew Day School. In an email, Schochet said, … more

1/5/17

Getting to know Rabbi Marc Mandel

Marc Mandel, rabbi at Newport’s historic Touro Synagogue, grew up in New York City and attended Yeshiva University for both his undergraduate studies and rabbinical school, graduating in 1988. … more

SAM SERBY | 1/5/17

Dr. David Kagan speaks on unification theory

Is physics one? That’s the topic for discussion when Temple Habonim member, Dr. David Kagan, a physicist and faculty member at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, speaks Jan. … more

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