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JTA – In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to …
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BEN SALES
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9/16/16
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September is now upon us, and summer’s end is in sight. You know what this means: the High Holy Days are coming!
The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island is partnering with synagogues …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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9/16/16
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Lindsay Kuhn has a passion for learning, and for doing, and it shows in her latest project.
Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, a little help from Brown …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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9/16/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution honoring the life and work of Elie Wiesel.
The resolution approved by voice vote on Sept. 12 …
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9/16/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Republican Jewish Coalition said it reached 25,000 people on a day of campaigning in Jewish neighborhoods in swing states where incumbent Republican senators are at risk.
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9/16/16
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BY ARIEL BROTHMAN
It took author Glenn Kurtz four years to track down the seven people seen in some 16 mm footage his grandfather shot in 1938 in Poland. Recorded in a small, predominantly …
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9/16/16
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About 30 of Rhode Island’s future Jewish leaders gathered at Camp JORI, in Wakefield, during the last weekend of August to celebrate their Judaism with prayer, friendship, and various …
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HILLARY SCHULMAN
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9/16/16
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The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s board room came alive Sept. 8 during a special news conference to celebrate the signing of the Holocaust-Genocide bill. The program featured …
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Marty Cooper
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9/16/16
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JTA – A stabbing and car-ramming epidemic in Israel that some called a third intifada was among the most dominant Jewish stories …
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Ben Harris
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9/15/16
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – The Jewish state has nearly made it through another Jewish year and, as always, there was plenty to kvetch about in 5776.
But Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New …
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Andrew Tobin
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9/15/16
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