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The Rhode Island Jewish community is small. As a result, we’ve often seen synagogues struggle with financial problems, combine or disappear. But this year, there’s a new congregation in the community. The West Bay Community Jewish Center has …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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9/3/15
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Camp is over and summer shaliach Nave Gedj is leaving. She will spend some time in New York City, then return to Israel, where she will move to Tel Aviv and start school at the Rimon School of Music.
She’s had a great experience, she said, and …
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9/3/15
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Rabbi Elyse Wechterman recently accepted an offer from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association to be their executive director. Wechterman says she is “feeling blessed to be able to play this role.”
She admits to being a …
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IRINA MISSIURO
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9/3/15
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The phone rings so you look at the caller ID. You don’t recognize the number, but you grudgingly decide to pick it up. On the line is Gloria Feibish, calling on behalf of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. It is dinnertime, so you are a …
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HILLARY SCHULMAN
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9/3/15
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Tishrei is among the most well-known months on the Hebrew calendar because it contains the High Holy Days and marks the beginning of the year. Or so it seems.
Indeed, to modern-day Jews, Rosh Hashanah is considered the Jewish …
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MAAYAN JAFFE
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9/3/15
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JTA — From Antarctica to Shanghai and farms to cities, this year’s crop of High Holy Days books for children offers a globe-trotting exploration. Friendship and family are the themes that run through five new titles that entertain and inform …
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PENNY SCHWARTZ
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9/3/15
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PROVIDENCE – Rosh Hashanah is right around the corner and many area congregations offer passes for High Holy Day services, thanks to a partnership between The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and area synagogues.
Individuals who are …
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Elly Leyman
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9/3/15
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Among the Reform congregations in The Jewish Voice circulation area, Temple Sinai, in Cranston, and Temple Habonim, in Barrington, will be using “Mishkan HaNefesh” for all High Holiday services.
Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser, of Temple Sinai, …
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9/3/15
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JTA – When some Reform synagogue-goers open up their prayer books this High Holy Day season, they will be greeted with snippets of poems by the likes of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda. Feminist and LGBTQ-friendly terms and phrases will be subtly …
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GABE FRIEDMAN
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9/3/15
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High Holy Days are upon us, and we’re looking through our closets for appropriate outfits to wear to the synagogue. But what if we could attend in our pajamas? Moreover, what if we could participate while our hair was in rollers? No, we wouldn’t …
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IRINA MISSIURO
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9/3/15
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