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june 21, 2013
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Good food, good music enjoyed by Emanu-El participants
A traditional English dinner of fish and chips – Rabbi Andrea Gouze, left, Rebecca Brenner and Dan Zussman enjoy a traditional English fish and chips dinner, complete with Newcastle Ale. They were among the hundreds of people who attended “A Night in Jewish London,” the May 22 event at Temple Emanu-El in Providence, which also included a concert by London’s Zemel Choir.
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Making music – Cantor Brian Mayer sings with London’s Zemel Choir and Emanu-El’s Shir Emanu-El Choir on May 22. The event was an Arts Emanu-El program for the Conservative synagogue on Providence’s East Side.
Chabad of West Bay
Tzippy Scheinerman
Jennifer Glazer, left, Blima Haldorsen, Elisheva Maldonado, Riva Steinhart, Ariela Greengart, Shani Perlumutter and Aviva Rotbard graduated from New England Academy of Torah, the girls’ Orthodox high school in Providence, on June 9.
NEAT holds graduation ceremonies
PROVIDENCE – In her class address at New England Academy of Torah’s graduation ceremonies on June 9, Ariela Greengart described the warmth and friendship that staff members and teachers offer students as well as the friendships among students. NEAT, she said, is one big family, according to a press release from NEAT. The
members of this “family” will be dispersing, as some students will attend various seminaries in Israel next fall, one will enter university in preparation for nursing school and another will join the staff of NEAT as an assistant teacher. Rabbi Peretz Scheinerman, dean of NEAT, spoke about this particular class and its commit-
ment to hesed (kindness). He read a letter he received from Chaya Bouganim, in Israel, who wrote about the graduates’ significant help they offered her frail and elderly mother, who lives in Rhode Island and has been ill. MORE INFO: Rabbi Peretz Scheinerman, 331-5327 or phdschool.org.
Elisse Wolff, from left, Patricia Raskin, Bracha Stuart, Robin Zino, Janice Adler, Gaye Belsky-Gluck and Ruth Feder at the Chabad dinner on June 5.
Jewish women are inspired at Chabad dinner
WARWICK – Some 50 Jewish women from throughout Rhode Island gathered for Chabad of West Bay’s Jewish women’s inspiration dinner. The dinner, held on June 5, at Chabad of West Bay, included entertainment by Chavi Epstein, who inspires women to tap into their inner joy through her singing workshop. Epstein, of South Carolina, weaves songs and stories together, using inspiration from the Baal Shem
Tov, who traveled from city to city lifting the spirits of fellow Jews with song and dance. Shoshanah Laufer, of Chabad Jewish Women of Rhode Island, organized the event. The group, which meets monthly, encourages Jewish women to unite, socialize and learn, through innovative workshops, lectures, and creative activities. MORE INFO: Shoshana Laufer, (mrslaufer@gmail. com).
Beatles Torah musical
Karolyn White
Fourth and fifth graders at the Jewish Community Day School perform the closing number in the school’s Beatle Torah musical on Wednesday, June 12. Front row, from left, Eli, Micah, Max, Annabelle and Reese, and back row, from left, Ruth, Annette, Noa, Daniel, Matan, Noam, Elie and Mina.