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When I became a rabbi, I knew that I would be giving advice on how to build a sukkah someday, but I never imagined that it would be at the local church!
It turns out that many Christians …
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d'Var Torah
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10/13/16
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The concept of “mindfulness” has emerged relatively recently as an important component of one’s well-being. Thrive RI, a new mindfulness meditation group, aims to …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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10/13/16
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On Sept. 22, Brown Students for Israel (BSI) heralded the start of the new school year with an event titled “Coexistence and the Environment: Cooperation at the Arava Institute.”
The …
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MICHELLE SCHEIN
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10/13/16
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Building Jewish identity, supporting the needy, making a difference. That’s what funds from the Jewish Alliance’s Annual Campaign do in the local community as well as in Jewish …
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STEPHANIE HAGUE
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10/13/16
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On Sunday, Sept. 25, the children of Congregation Beth Sholom (CBS) had an a-maze-ing time at Dame Farm and Orchards in Johnston. In the first social event of the season sponsored by the newly …
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10/13/16
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On the evening of Nov. 18, 1933, a week before Thanksgiving, the SPHAS, the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association basketball team took the floor at their home court, the Broadwood Hotel at the corner …
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Douglas Stark
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10/13/16
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HAVANA – A friendly welcome, a sense of joy, an air of need.
This is what my granddaughter and I encountered on a recent visit to the largest synagogue in Cuba’s Jewish community, which once numbered 15,000 or more.
But when Fidel Castro’s Revolution triumphed in 1959 and began confiscating businesses, most Jews fled. Today there are only 1,200, nearly all in Havana, where the main congregation is housed in this building with an impressive white front. There is a soaring arch, a Star of David and doors emblazoned with symbols of the Tribes of Israel.
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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10/13/16
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JTA – Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential voices in American Jewish intellectual life in the past half-century, has died.
Neusner, one of the most published authors in …
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10/13/16
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Congratulations – A surprise party was held on Sept. 18 for Miriam Snell’s 90th birthday. The party, given by her son, Jerry Snell, and held at the home of her daughter, Sheryl Moran, …
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9/29/16
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We Are Read – Our own financial writer, Barbara Kenerson, reading the Jewish Voice at the ruins of the Greek Temple of Apollo in Ortigia, the ancient center of Siracusa, the home of the …
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9/29/16
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