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Summers at Jewish overnight camps are packed with a wide range of fun activities. Campers are encouraged to discover new skills and interests they never knew they had.
Jewish camp weaves Jewish values, culture and traditions into the fabric of …
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JEWISH VOICE STAFF
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2/26/15
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The pink and blue flowered comforter decorated the frame of the wire cot, but underneath it a squirming figure gloomily hid from the commotion that enveloped the cabin. From my alcove, where the counselors slept, I heard a faint whimper. Sara, a …
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ANNA ROSENFELD
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2/26/15
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There’s a certain expression that is floating around on Worden’s Pond in Wakefield – T.a.C.E.O., or Taking Care of Each Other. That’s the motto of Camp JORI, a thriving summer home for children from all over the country that provides a …
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Hillary Schulman
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2/26/15
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BERLIN (JTA) – The heirs of four Jewish art collectors filed suit against Germany to regain a medieval gold treasure they claim was forcibly sold to the Nazis in 1935.
Alan Phillip and Gerald Stiebel filed their claim Feb. 23 against Germany …
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2/26/15
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BOSTON (JTA) – Millions of dollars worth of prized art and objects once stolen by the Nazis and later forcibly relinquished to the Austrian government was donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The donation of 186 objects from the …
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2/26/15
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James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Absent from many accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning work is the contribution made by their …
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Toby Rossner
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2/26/15
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Over the weekend of Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser of Temple Sinai in Cranston took five confirmation students on a trip to Washington, D.C. During those 48 hours, they heard a briefing at the Israeli Embassy about U.S.-Israel …
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2/26/15
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Taking advantage of a narrow break in otherwise snowy weather, some 60 members of the community showed up at the social hall of the Dwares JCC the evening of Feb. 18. Their reason for braving the weather was to hear what Professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig, …
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HOWARD BROWN
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2/26/15
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Founded in 1951, the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, collects, shares and interprets all aspects of our Jewish communal history – from colonial times to the present. The Association’s office and archive, located on the lower level of …
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2/26/15
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Founded in 1951, the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, collects, shares and interprets all aspects of our Jewish communal history – from colonial times to the present. The Association’s office and archive, located on the lower level of …
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2/26/15
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