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As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like …
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Rafael Medoff /JNS.org
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8/16/13
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During the Holocaust years, there was only one march in Washington, D.C., to plead with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to rescue Europe’s Jews. As the 70th anniversary of that remarkable demonstration approaches, the protest is finally …
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Rafael Medoff
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – When Rabbi Michelle Dardashti moves to Providence this month for her new job as associate chaplain for the Jewish community at Brown University and rabbi of Brown RISD Hillel, she adds another city to a long list of residences.
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Susan Youngwood
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – Eddie Bruckner, Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island’s vice president for financial resource development, and I experienced Minsk and Israel on a Jewish Federations of North America mission with 96 other lay and professional …
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Susan Leach DeBlasio
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – “Caravan,” a musical band of energetic Israeli scouts brought Israeli culture, music and dance and messages of peace to the greater Rhode Island Jewish community earlier this month.
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8/16/13
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice briefed Jewish leaders on Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
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8/16/13
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(JTA) – The parents of a 13-year-old boy are suing their Massachusetts school district for ignoring verbal and physical attacks on their son by other students for being Jewish.
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8/16/13
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) – Rabbi Sergio Bergman won the most votes in the midterm congressional primary elections in Argentina, his first national test for a seat in parliament.
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island JCC Early Childhood Center has received a $15,000 Program Quality Improvement Grant for its commitment to quality early childhood care and education.
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – Can we be fit in our 60s and sexy in our 70s and beyond? Is dementia inevitable? Can we maintain a healthy mind as we age? What are “advanced directives” and “palliative care” and other health care terms? What are the …
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Sam Shamoon
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8/16/13
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