| Friday, 29 April 2011 04:47 |  RABBI ELIE KAUNFERThe Daily Beast and Newsweek teamed up again to issue the mid-April list of the 50 most influential rabbis in the United States. They wrote, of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer and his colleagues at Mechon Hadar, Rabbi Shai Held and Rabbi Ethan Tucker, “In a few unadorned rooms on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, three energizing, erudite rabbis under the age of 40 have created the seminary they felt was missing.
“Mechon Hadar puts a premium on Hebrew competence and long-term commitment to its courses, but also welcomes guest students who want great Talmud but can’t commit a whole year (and yes, need the English translations). These teachers have generated buzz because they prove that great text study might make disengaged Jews take a second look at Judaism.” Kaunfer, the son of Rabbi Alvan and Marcia Kaunfer of Providence, was ranked #46 in 2009; Held and Tucker were named to the list for the first time. |
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| Friday, 29 April 2011 04:45 |  Andy YosinoffAndy Yosinoff, the head basketball coach for the women’s basketball team at Emmanuel College, was a finalist for the Red Auerbach College Basketball Coach of the Year. He wrote that the four other nominees were coaches for Division I men’s teams. Although he didn’t win, he loves coaching the young women who play for Emmanuel’s Division III basketball team.
The son of Louis and the late Freda Yosinoff, of Pawtucket, he finds that his Jewish values of fairness and giving everyone an equal opportunity come into play as a coach. Asserting that his team is exciting to watch, he said, “My team is famous, we play a full court in-your-face, pressing game. We play like a men’s team...” Yosinoff also reported that he was the coach of the Gold Medal Women’s Maccabiah in Israel in 2005. With 661 victories under his belt, he believes he may be the “‘winningest’ Jewish college coach ever in Division I, II or III. Yosinoff, who was named to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003, also has taken his team to 16 NCAA appearances, including one in the Final Four in 2001, and has won 16 regional (GNAC) championships. Basketball isn’t the only thing that Yosinoff takes pride in; his father, Louis, at 92, still drives every day from his Pawtucket home to Temple Emanu-El for the morning minyan. |
| Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00 |  Jennifer Moscovitz and Joseph Angelone
Terry and Wendy Moscovitz of Cranston proudly announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer, to Joseph Angelone of Cranston. Jennifer is the granddaughter of Gloria and Irwin Moscovitz of Warwick; the late Julia Malatt Cohen, and Jerry and Bernice Cohen of Cranston. Jennifer is an elementary education teacher in Cranston and Joseph works for the RI Department of Corrections. Joseph is the son of Leslie Angelone and Roger Angelone and the grandson of Marie Apicerno and the late Joseph Apicerno. The couple will wed in Newport in March 2012. |
| | Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00 |  Betsy Cohen
Betsy Cohen, a junior at the University of Rhode Island, recently presented her research findings at a third annual Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium conference on March 5 and 6 in Biddeford, Maine. Her research – addressing whether compounds extracted from probiotic (“good”) marine bacteria could protect against pathogenic (“bad”) marine bacteria – is the result of fellowship that she was awarded in May 2010 by URI and the Rhode Island Sea Grant, a paid internship for students doing research. Cohen is majoring in marine biology. |
| Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00 |  BRENDAN RAPPOPORT
Brendan Rappoport, a May 2010 graduate of Johnson & Wales University, works as a client advisor at Inskip BMW in Warwick. Brendan is the son of Howard M. Rappoport and Helena Chirachella of Johnston, and the grandson of Selma and Nocky Rappoport. |
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