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This fall a team of board members, community members and Alliance staff came together to create a strategic plan for the next three years. They created a community survey which more than 350 people responded to. Another 150 people participated in small group discussions. The goal was to gauge how the community’s needs have shifted or solidified in key areas since the last strategic plan
In the fall of 2024, the Jewish Alliance embarked on a community-listening campaign and collected data from more than 500 community members throughout the state through a comprehensive survey, small group conversations, and one-on-one interviews. With the help of our volunteers, the data was analyzed and goals and strategies were developed. Listen in as Emma Newbery talks with Adam Greenman about the vision behind the Alliance's 2025 Strategic Plan, including its community-driven goals, and his hopes for the next five years.
PROVIDENCE – There is an unspoken contract between the creators of theater and those attending it.
We in the audience agree that the artificiality of what is taking place on stage – the stylized unfolding of a scripted narrative, the representation of a time and a place that is not necessarily our own and the incarnation of invented others by actors – will be accepted as real. For the length of the production, we allow …
BOSTON – It took nearly 60 years for “Funny Girl” to return to Broadway in revival, an astonishing length of time considering that the popular 1964 production earned eight Tony nominations and lasted 1,348 performances.
The primary reason for the delay was finding the right woman to play Fanny Brice – the legendary Jewish star of vaudeville’s Ziegfeld Follies at the turn-of-the-20th century – once Barbra Streisand was done with her. It was Streisand’s Tony-nominated performance on stage (she lost to Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!”) …
The IDF operates simultaneously in various sectors to ensure the security of the country. The focus is on activities in the north, Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and other arenas.
Just as vital, the government must stop stalling in negotiating phase two of the deal to see the return …
US Central Command says that the internationally recognized Yemeni government had thwarted an attempt to …
ISRAEL: Security cabinet to convene on Monday to discuss Stage 2 of Gaza cease-fire ■ GAZA …
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem states that Israeli forces must fully withdraw from Lebanese territory …
Rabbi Berel Lazar reveals the depth of the Russian involvement in the hostage crisis and describes …
Chef Orel Lati holds special event for the five IDF lookouts who were recently released from Hamas …
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The Shabbat where Parashat Beshallach is read is commonly referred to by a special name, Shabbat Shira (the Sabbath of Song). On this Shabbat, the reading contains the song the Israelites sang when …
On Feb. 3, 2024 –the first Shabbat Yitro following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas – Bill Miles offered on the bima of Temple Emanu-El in Providence these words prefacing the prayer for …
Some months , writing this column comes easily. Other times, it doesn’t. As I sat down to write this column, I felt very stuck. I make it a habit not to comment on the politics of the day. That …
In recent years , I’ve come to appreciate more and more The New York Times columnist David Brooks (b. 8/10/61), who came to the newspaper in …
In the December 2024 , David Middlemiss wrote a letter about a petition written by teachers and authors who participated in the 2024 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) …
When you think of “camp food,” what comes to mind? As a camp director, I can assure you that your image of camp meals is probably very different from the reality. Let me take you on a …
The Rhode Island Coalition for Israel (RICI) invites the community to a free Zoom event: Israel’s Security Challenges: A Conversation with Elliott Abrams on Sunday, March 2 at 2 p.m. Go to …