PROVIDENCE – Do you observe the High Holy Days as a blended family or multi-generational family all living together? Have you celebrated Rosh Hashanah at the beach admiring a fiery sunset, marveling at the strength in your lungs and back as you …
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8/1/13
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NEWPORT – Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan’s keynote address will highlight the 66th annual reading of George Washington’s historic letter, “To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport.”
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8/1/13
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PROVIDENCE – Forty-seven … that is the number of states I’ve visited. The number on that counter hasn’t moved in more than a decade.
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6/21/13
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We entered the plaza to the sounds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men screaming insults and throwing garbage. The difference this week was that instead of the police dragging women off in handcuffs they made a barrier of blue uniforms holding back a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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6/21/13
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Poetry equals money. That seems like a supremely oxymoronic equation – but not in Israel.
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Sam Lehman-Wilzig
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6/21/13
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For anyone who loves the Jewish people, the fighting in Israel over egalitarianism is cause for great sadness. In my column, “Why the Israeli chief rabbinate is wrong,” in the Aug. 17, 2012 issue of The Jewish Voice & Herald, I tried to show how …
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Guest columnists
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6/21/13
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Nancy Kirsch’s column “My father’s story,” in the June 7 issue of The Jewish Voice & Herald moved me to tears. It made me so appreciative, once again, of the fantastic mother and father I had.
It’s a wonderful tribute to Nancy that she …
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Letters to the editor
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6/21/13
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Nancy’s Kirsch’s poignant and potent column about her father (“My father’s story) in the June 7 issue of The Jewish Voice & Herald is sui generis. It is unique in the sense that she unburdened her heart and soul and did this with brutal …
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Letters to the editor
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6/21/13
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My gratitude to Nancy Kirsch and The Jewish Voice & Herald Voice for the comprehensive examination of suicide and mental health issues for military personnel and veterans, “Those in active duty face risks beyond the battlefield,” in the June 7 …
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Letters to the editor
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6/21/13
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I want to sit shivah for Esther Williams, Hollywood’s “Million Dollar Mermaid,” who died earlier this month.
In the 1952 movie bio, “Million Dollar Mermaid,” she portrays Annette Kellerman, who overcame polio to swim again – a …
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Letters to the editor
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6/21/13
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