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Q: Favorite Jewish food?
A: Matzah for Pesach.
Q: Favorite Jewish holiday?
A: Pesach. Why? It is just so much work, which makes you appreciate it.
Q: Favorite Jewish song?
A: …
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12/9/16
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With this issue, The Jewish Voice is inaugurating a column designed to give insight into our community leaders. Rabbi Steven Jablow is the first Jewish leader featured in our “Q&A …
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Sam Serby
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12/9/16
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The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new Hanukkah stamp for 2016. It depicts a hanukkiah (a menorah for Hanukkah) in a window through which one can see snow-covered branches.
In …
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LARRY KATZ
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12/9/16
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(MyJewishLearning via JTA) – Hanukkah, which starts at sundown on Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve – is among the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays in the United States. But that …
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Julie Wiener
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12/9/16
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BY TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Kirk Douglas – actor, director, producer, author, philanthropist and Torah student – is celebrating his 100th birthday on Dec. 9, and …
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TOM TUGEND
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12/9/16
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After reading the stories about the Alliance mission to Cuba and M. Charles Bakst’s trip to Cuba, in the Oct. 14 edition of The Jewish Voice, we wanted to provide our story about our recent …
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MARK KANTER with LYNNE GLICKMAN
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11/25/16
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Question: What is the meaning of the term “nichum avelim” that I’ve heard at some funerals?
E.F., Providence
Dear E.F.,
Nichum is a Hebrew term meaning …
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By Michael D. Smith F.D./R.E.,
Shalom Memorial Chapel
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11/25/16
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Dr. Michelle Forcier of Hasbro Children’s Hospital was the featured speaker at the recent Transgender Workshop for faith leaders. Sponsored by the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, it was …
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11/25/16
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Ruth Gruber was one of the most remarkable voices of our generation. She died on Nov. 17, 2016, at the age of 105. My husband, Mel, and I knew Ruth Gruber well, and we visited her each time we went …
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CYNTHIA YOKEN
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11/25/16
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JTA – The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note reading “Gas Jew Die” was left at his front door.
The professor has been identified by police …
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11/25/16
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