| Recycling 100 years before recycling was cool |  |  |  |
| By Nancy Abeshaus | | Friday, 17 February 2012 15:48 |  Sam, ADAM and CHARLES SINEL stand in front of their painted images, which are part of the pictorial history of Berger Recycling. The mural also depicts, at left, founders Yetta and Hyman Berger. /Nancy AbeshausPAWTUCKET – “Every picture tells a story.” What better way to commemorate a business that began a century ago in America than by telling its story with a pictorial history – in this case, a hand-painted, brightly colored mural on the outside of its building? |
| Economic concerns mount in Israel | | | |
| By Mati Wagner | | Friday, 17 February 2012 15:46 | JERUSALEM (JTA) – “It’s the economy, stupid” was how American political strategist James Carville once summed up the defining issue in U.S. presidential elections. |
| Two Jewish men lead state’s sole community foundation | | | |
| By Nancy Kirsch
| | Friday, 17 February 2012 15:43 |  David M. Hirsch, left, and Neil D. Steinberg /Stew MilnePROVIDENCE – Two Jewish men – Neil D. Steinberg and David M. Hirsch – serve the Rhode Island Foundation (the Foundation), the state’s only community foundation, as president and chief executive officer, and chairman, respectively.
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| Cumulative experiences build Jewish identities | | | |
| By Nancy Kirsch
| | Friday, 03 February 2012 15:06 |  PROVIDENCE –Members of the greater Rhode Island Jewish community will soon receive an email inviting them to join GrapeVine. The free resource that “matches the individual to the right Jewish opportunity at the right point in time,” said Wendy Joering, the Alliance community concierge, GrapeVine employs 21st century technologies to connect Jewish individuals with Jewish communal organizations and programs. |
| Michael Oren identifies challenges and opportunities | | | |
| By Paul Foer | | Friday, 03 February 2012 15:04 | JointMedia News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. – During a recent visit to the U.S. Naval Academy, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren stressed both privately and publicly that his country remains committed to working toward the possibility of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. |
| U.S. companies invest in Israel | | | |
| By Dan Pine | | Friday, 03 February 2012 14:09 | SAN FRANCISCO (j weekly) – In mid-December 2011, Ronni Zehavi sold Contendo, a web services company he co-founded in Israel four years ago, to Akamai Technologies, in Cambridge, Mass., a major global high-tech player. Sale price: $268 million. |
| Temple Emanu-El clergy performs same-sex wedding | | | |
| By Nancy Kirsch
| | Friday, 20 January 2012 01:58 |  PATRICIA FINNEY, left, Rabbi Joel Seltzer and Risa Schulman, with members of the wedding party, at Temple Emanu-El /Gumula PhotographyPROVIDENCE – Weddings may be “old hat” for seasoned rabbis, but Nov. 12, 2011 was a milestone at Temple Emanu-El, the Conservative synagogue in Providence: Rabbi Joel Seltzer officiated at the marriage of Patricia Finney (now Patricia Finney Schulman) and Risa Schulman that evening. It was the first same-sex wedding performed there.
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