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Community gathers to honor Oct. 7 terror victims

Tuesday, October 8

More than 450 people gathered Monday night to remember the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 tragedy. Organized by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode …

Theater Review: The first original American production of ‘Leopoldstadt’ at the Huntington

Friday, September 20

BOSTON – “We are moving all too quickly from living history to historical memory,” notes the website for the National Jewish Theater Foundation , which serves as an archive for over …

Sharing our goals and needs: The Strategic Planning Survey

Tuesday, October 8

Right now, members of the Rhode Island Jewish community have the opportunity to tell the Jewish Alliance what matters most. The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island is undertaking a community …

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Miss Rhode Island wants to give pediatric cancer sufferers a glimmer of hope

Tuesday, October 8

On May 12, Ali Hornung was crowned Miss Rhode Island. Energetic, talkative and conspicuously stunning, Hornung is exactly the kind of 24-year-old torchbearer the organization loves to celebrate. She …
Headlines from Israeli newspapers

Rifle and Koran: the new Western Woke antisemite

The left has embraced Islamism and is bringing about its own downfall when the rifles will be turned against it. Western suicidal masochism” whose root causes “are to be found more in Freud than …

High Holy Days

We need High Holy Day prayers that meet the moment

Tuesday, October 8

I’ve spent the last year traveling the world – two trips each to Israel and Ukraine, along with time in Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Georgia and beyond – and I have …
D'var Torah

We must do the right thing because it is right

Tuesday, October 8

Back in the fall of 1994, when I was a relatively impoverished rabbinical student living in Israel, I went to my local Bank Leumi branch to make a withdrawal. After the transaction, I asked the …

Editor's column

Can we agree to come together as a strong community?

I am grateful for the community we have here in little Rhody. We are a group of individuals who hold each other together and keep each other going when we need to. I am grateful for those …

No hooray in this summer’s last hurrah

The Olympics are in full swing!

Things change, but family is forever

Change is in the air

Pollen and pets and patrons

Obituaries

Shirley Brandt, 93

Tuesday, September 17

Alan Shawn Feinstein, 93

Tuesday, September 17

Diana Lewinstein, 81

Tuesday, September 17

Robert Mann, 76

Tuesday, September 17

Arthur Rubin, 87

Tuesday, September 17

Charlotte Rubinoff, 78

Tuesday, September 17

Paul Schweitzer, 95

Tuesday, September 17

Roberta Van Der Molen, 81

Tuesday, September 17

IT SEEMS TO ME
I returned to the peaceful community of Barrington on Monday, March 11, 2002, after a roller-coaster ride in Jerusalem – an experience of frightening plunges and magical highs. I was part of a …
    • Life, Liberty and the Pursuit…

      The second paragraph of our Declaration of Independence begins: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that …

Letters to the Editor

I’m standing up

Friday, September 6

If not now , then when? I cannot stand by any longer hoping someone else will stand up for Israel. At recent rallies I have attended, Pro-Israel groups are always outnumbered by Pro-Palestinian …

Remember your values

Friday, September 6

All of us have been rightly shaken by what has happened on college campuses and by the way that some in progressive circles who we have faithfully supported have embraced a false and hateful …

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Food

Watch the video: Sweet memories of holidays gone by

Tuesday, October 8

Most of us look back fondly on High Holy Days celebrated in the warm embrace of our extended families. And as young parents, we try to make those memories for our …

Other news
Mezuzah donation

Jewish residents at Hattie Ide Chaffee Home, in East Providence, recently received mezuzot donated by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. The mezuzot were hung up with the help of Susie …

Celebrate Alliance’s B’nai Mitzvah Dec. 7

Get ready to mark a historic and heartwarming occasion as the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island celebrates its B’nai Mitzvah on Dec. 7! This special event will commemorate 13 …

Rabbi discusses ‘Picking up the Pieces’

On Sept. 23 , about 45 people listened to Rabbi Elan Babchuck discuss his new book with Rabbi Josh Bolton, executive director of Brown RISD Hillel,   at the Dwares Jewish Community Center in …