The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island provides stipends and needs-based grants to young adults through the age of 26 to travel to Israel for internships, …
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JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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11/7/21
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(JTA) – An Israeli windsurfer is one step closer to qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after earning the silver medal in the world championships.
Katy Spychakov, 20, came in second Sept. …
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10/2/19
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(JTA) — Hadara Bilsky thought she’d spend her first semester of college making friends in her dorm, having discussions with professors and students in class, and attending Shabbat services at …
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Josefin Dolsten
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5/21/20
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Applications for grants for Rhode Islanders and nearby Bay Staters to travel to Israel, as well as for RootOne vouchers for eligible teen summer trips to Israel, are now being accepted by several …
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JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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2/1/24
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JTA – Committees of the United Nations General Assembly were scheduled to vote on 10 resolutions against Israel in one day.
Along with the Israel votes on Nov. 8, the committees were due …
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11/11/16
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When Passover last year became the first Jewish holiday to take place since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Jews the world over struggled with novel …
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LARRY LUXNER
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3/17/21
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – As Amnesty International became the third major human rights group to categorize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid,” the U.S. Ambassador to Israel said that the label was “absurd.”
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2/6/22
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JTA – Liberal and centrist American Jewish groups expressed dismay following remarks by President Donald Trump that he “can live with” a one-state solution to the …
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2/16/17
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – For the first time, Israelis said the main point of conflict in their society is between left and right and not between Jews and Arabs.
That’s what an annual …
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12/6/18
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President Barack Obama sprang his much-anticipated “December surprise” on Israel at the United Nations, capping off 2016 with a bang as it relates to the Gregorian calendar year’s …
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JACOB KAMARAS/JNS.org
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1/5/17
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