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A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of a historic New York City synagogue that is seeking to remove the leadership of the congregation that meets at another historic synagogue building – …
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ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL with local reports
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9/3/23
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The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island is pleased to announce that Providence-based artist and Jewish educator Zo Baker is the Alliance’s first artist-in-residence.
Baker , who uses …
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DEVORAH PHILLIPS
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12/3/23
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JTA – Brandeis University announced Dec. 10 that its next president will be Ronald Liebowitz, the former president of Middlebury College.
Though he won’t start until next July, Liebowitz shared some of his ideas about the …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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12/25/15
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On June 6, 2013 – just days prior to her 39th birthday – Eastside resident Sara Masri was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram.
Reflecting on the people and experiences she has encountered since her diagnosis, Masri saw …
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9/29/14
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Barbra Joan Streisand is a renowned singer, actress, director, songwriter, producer, political activist and philanthropist. She has a mantle full of Grammys, Tonys, Emmys, Oscars and Peabody Awards. She is an officer of France’s Legion of Honor, …
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Shelley A. Sackett
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4/10/14
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For the past 25 years, Dr. Stephen Kaplan has researched Jewish history and thought as an avocation and has explored the experience of the Jewish people as a pathway to understanding the Jewish faith. As part of the “Time for Me” Adult Education …
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Arthur C. Norman
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1/3/14
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PROVIDENCE – On multiple occasions during the recent Sukkot visit to our community by Elder Ovadiah Agbai and Elder Pinchas Ogbukaa, of Abuja’s Gihon Synagogue, the three of us ran into Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz, director of Meor (an innovative …
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Shai Afsai
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10/10/13
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JTA – An accused Nazi war criminal is unfit to stand trial, a German court ruled.
Hans Lipschis, 94, who allegedly was an SS guard at Auschwitz, suffers from dementia and will not understand what transpires at his trial, the court in Ellwangen …
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3/13/14
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BOSTON (JTA) – Six weeks after a fire shuttered Boston’s main kosher supermarket, The Butcherie is now operating on a limited basis from a nearby Brookline location.
Selectmen in …
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9/1/16
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Ben Sales
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1/20/17
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