Charitable gifting allows you to satisfy your personal philanthropic desires and fulfill your estate-planning objectives. The “charitable deduction” allows you to deduct the value of property you give to charity from your estate and …
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BARBARA KENERSON
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2/5/16
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Would you like to be remembered by future generations? Do you want to leave a legacy? Perhaps you would rather give your dollars to philanthropy than to Uncle Sam? Good news: The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island can help you realize your …
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HILLARY SCHULMAN
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2/5/16
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Esther M. Gold, of Springvale, Maine, has asked readers of The Voice for help in locating the family that belongs to this photo. She writes: “My family has Providence roots. My grandparents migrated from Poland, married in Providence and …
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2/5/16
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Back in the day, in the days of my childhood and youth, almost every Jewish kitchen had a pushke, or, as some pronounced it, pishke. Your pronunciation depended on the dialect of Yiddish spoken in the area of Europe in which your family …
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GERALDINE S. FOSTER
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2/5/16
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To celebrate Tu b’Shevat, Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island (JCDSRI) second- graders went on a search for the essence of life at a place where you’ve been many times.
They recently headed to the Eastside Marketplace, where …
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ROTEM GOLDSHMID and RHONDA MILLS
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2/5/16
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Four years ago the Keystone State Boychoir (KSB) enthralled Temple Habonim members at a Friday night worship service with their beautiful voices.
They will return to R.I. and Temple Habonim on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. bringing their inspiring music …
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2/5/16
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PROVIDENCE – Natan Sharansky and Michael Douglas brought stories of their Jewish journeys to Brown University the evening of Jan. 28. Speaking before a packed auditorium at the Salomon Center for Teaching, the renowned Russian activist, who now …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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2/5/16
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The Eides family has a special feeling for the Providence Jewish community. After all, this is the community that welcomed Mira and Alex and their children with open arms in the early 1970s, when they came here from the former Soviet Union, among …
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Fran Ostendorf
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2/5/16
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Donna “Dee Dee” Williams, of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Homelessness, spoke to an estimated 75 people on Jan. 26 at the Dwares Jewish Community Center about caring for people who are homeless while treating them with dignity and respect. …
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2/5/16
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It was a pleasure to read Barry Prizant’s new book, “Uniquely Human,” published by Simon and Schuster (2015).
In his book, Prizant, of Cranston, reflects on the knowledge he has gained from his many years as a clinical scholar, …
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TOBY W. LIEBOWITZ
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2/5/16
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