There is something special about joining a long-standing family legacy. Last summer, 26-year-old Aaron Guttin joined his family’s legacy when he took on the role of assistant director at Camp JORI. The Guttin family has played key roles at the …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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2/19/16
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In 2009, the world-renowned American violinist Joshua Bell stood on a stage in Czestochowa, Poland, to play Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D on a Stradivarius violin, the very same violin that had been owned and played in the same town by the Polish …
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LINDA SHAMOON
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10/29/15
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RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Chani Lerner-Mor’s political activism began on a street corner here in 1993.
The landmark Oslo Accords, ceding parts of the West Bank to Yassir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, had been signed recently. …
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Ben Sales
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2/26/15
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Tara Demyan’s trip to Israel this summer was an eye opener.
From the moment of arrival in Israel, as part of a group of 10 women from the Providence area, “I fell in love with Israel,” she says.
The group joined 200 other women in the …
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Fran Ostendorf
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11/7/14
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Let’s get to it!
6–7 square matzahs
5 eggs
1 cup milk
2 cups cottage cheese
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon cinnamon
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Tamar Ansh
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2/27/14
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On Feb. 24, the Rhode Island Senate passed a resolution expressing sympathy on the passing of Dr. Stanley M. Aronson. It was introduced by Senators Gayle Goldin, M. Teresa Paiva Weed, Donna M. Nesselbush, Paul W. Fogarty and Josh Miller.
Calling …
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2/26/15
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Carl Feldman will be speaking on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his background, the power of the Presidency, his attitude toward the Holocaust and his larger dreams of a world at peace.
Carl Feldman was born in Providence in 1937 and is a graduate …
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Arthur C. Norman
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11/7/13
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You wouldn’t exactly call Marc Seifer’s career path typical. A Rhode Island resident for nearly 50 years, Seifer has spent his adult life working as a handwriting analyst at the …
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SAM SERBY
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12/23/16
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In the Biblical Garden at Temple Sinai in Cranston, religious school students will soon sow three ancient cereal grains that are native to the Near East and were first domesticated by farming …
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CATHERINE WALTERS
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3/16/17
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All three local athletes who competed in the 20th annual Maccabiah Games in Israel this past July brought home gold!
May Stern, of Providence, Daniel Freeman, of West Warwick, and …
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SAM SERBY
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10/16/17
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