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On Sept. 22, Brown Students for Israel (BSI) heralded the start of the new school year with an event titled “Coexistence and the Environment: Cooperation at the Arava Institute.”
The …
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MICHELLE SCHEIN
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10/13/16
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Building Jewish identity, supporting the needy, making a difference. That’s what funds from the Jewish Alliance’s Annual Campaign do in the local community as well as in Jewish …
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STEPHANIE HAGUE
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10/13/16
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On Sunday, Sept. 25, the children of Congregation Beth Sholom (CBS) had an a-maze-ing time at Dame Farm and Orchards in Johnston. In the first social event of the season sponsored by the newly …
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10/13/16
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On the evening of Nov. 18, 1933, a week before Thanksgiving, the SPHAS, the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association basketball team took the floor at their home court, the Broadwood Hotel at the corner …
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Douglas Stark
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10/13/16
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HAVANA – A friendly welcome, a sense of joy, an air of need.
This is what my granddaughter and I encountered on a recent visit to the largest synagogue in Cuba’s Jewish community, which once numbered 15,000 or more.
But when Fidel Castro’s Revolution triumphed in 1959 and began confiscating businesses, most Jews fled. Today there are only 1,200, nearly all in Havana, where the main congregation is housed in this building with an impressive white front. There is a soaring arch, a Star of David and doors emblazoned with symbols of the Tribes of Israel.
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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10/13/16
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JTA – Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential voices in American Jewish intellectual life in the past half-century, has died.
Neusner, one of the most published authors in …
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10/13/16
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PROVIDENCE – Are you affiliated with a Jewish nonprofit organization in need of grant funds? If so, you might want to consider submitting a grant request to the Helene and Bertram …
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9/29/16
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The Touro Fraternal Association, the largest men’s independent Jewish fraternal association in the Northeast, has selected eight young men and women to share a total of $30,000 …
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9/29/16
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Texting versus email (or even snail mail). Angry Birds versus Monopoly. “The Theory of Everything” versus “The Sound of Music.” “Dancing with the Stars” versus …
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9/29/16
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As we enter this new year, we take stock of what we have accomplished and what we are grateful for. And when we pause to take stock, in effect we reset and often calm our …
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SUSAN BAZAR and ERIN MINIOR
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9/29/16
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