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Rabbi Emily Goldberg Winer remembers the summer when a teenage boy drowned, 12 years before she became director of spiritual engagement at Congregation Beth Sholom, in Providence. It was 2011 , … more
StatePoint –  Choosing a healthcare plan can be difficult, especially when you have a chronic lung disease like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema and makes it difficult to breathe. It … more
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 … more
Did you know that some condominium associations may have the right to keep a homeowner from posting a mezuzah at the doorway entrance? It happened to Barbara Cadranel of Stratford, CT. In 2012, she received a stern letter from her … more
It is said, “Make yourself a heart of many rooms and bring into it the words of the House of Shammai and the words of the House of Hillel.” (Mishnah Sota 7:12) Jewish identity is expressed through a wide array of beliefs and … more
Every year, Touro Fraternal Association conducts an Open House to familiarize prospective members with the organization. The largest Jewish men’s fraternal association, it consists of nearly 600 members. On Wednesday, April 23, you can learn about … more
PROVIDENCE – HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange, reminds all Rhode Islanders that it has extended individual and small employer plan selection and payment deadlines to ensure that more Rhode Islanders are able to have … more
HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. (JTA) – Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of … more
JTA — A federal judge has granted control of the country’s oldest synagogue to the Rhode Island congregation that worships there and not the building’s New York-based founding … more
JTA — Two Torahs valued at $30,000 that had been stolen with some $50,000 of silver religious pieces were returned to a New Jersey synagogue. Thomas Dobles, 39, a former caretaker at … more
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