On a mission

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Participants in the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island Community Relations Council Leadership Mission to Israel are (back row, left to right) Chris Boyle, attorney and board chair, St. Clare Newport; Richard Licht, Alliance past board chair; Linda Newton, principal, Newton & Newton Consulting; Nicholas Matiello, speaker of the R.I. House; Marty Cooper, Alliance Community Relations Council director; Adam Greenman, United Way EVP for Community Investment and Public Policy; Janet Coit, director, R.I. Department of Environmental Management; M. Teresa Paiva Weed, president of the R.I. Senate; Sharon Gaines, Alliance Board chair; James S. Sanzi, vice president of development, R.I. Foundation; and Barbara S. Cottam, chair, state Board of Higher Education and EVP, Citizens Financial Group; (front row, left to right) Margaret M. Van Bree, president, R.I. Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital; Jeffrey Savit, Alliance president & CEO; James Diossa, mayor, Central Falls; Toby Ayers, executive director, R.I. for Community and Justice; Charles Newton, senior vice president, Newton & Newton Consulting; Rev. Donald Anderson, executive minister, R.I. State Council of Churches;  and Richard Glucksman Alliance Community Relations Council chair. The interfaith group of community leaders spent Nov. 8-15 in Israel.