Never forget
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On a blustery May 6, approximately 50 people gathered at the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial in Providence for the first annual Yom ha-Shoah commemoration. Jeffrey Savit, president and CEO of the …
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On May 5, students in grades 6 through 8 at the Providence Hebrew Day School had the privilege of hearing Irving Schild, of Pawtucket, speak about his experiences during the Holocaust to commemorate …
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Providence Hebrew Day School
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In recognition of Yom ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Congregation Agudas Achim, in Attleboro, invited Andrew Algava to speak about the 600 days he and his family spent hiding from the Nazis in …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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Time travel in Israel
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On a recent trip to Israel, I knew where I wanted to go first: 56 years into my past.
At age 16, on a Young Judaea summer tour, I attended the Aug. 3, 1960, dedication of the Hadassah Medical …
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M. Charles Bakst
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“If you kill the two-state solution, you kill the prospect of ever having peace.”
This was the overarching perspective voiced by Alan Elsner, J Street’s vice president of …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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5/12/16
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“Should we take our money and run? Putting today’s market volatility into context,” featuring Jeff Croteau of Prime Buchholz & Associates, Inc., was held at the home of Michael …
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The Sunday Film Series at Temple Habonim concludes with “Rabin in His Own Words” on May 22. This is the dramatic life story of Yitzhak Rabin 20 years after his assassination, told …
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – When Israel entered its 1948 War of Independence, the coastal city of Rishon Lezion was a hardscrabble farming settlement with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
As waves of …
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Ben Sales
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The StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers Tour came to Rhode Island on April 15. This innovative program features reserve-duty Israeli college students who talk about their lives as ordinary Israeli citizens, …
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BRACHA STUART
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The Aquatics department of the Dwares Jewish Community Center, in Providence, welcomed two new staff members earlier this year.
Doug Immel became the new aquatics director at the …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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