PROVIDENCE – Many children who experience difficulty acquiring literacy skills such as reading, spelling, and writing are diagnosed with dyslexia.
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Diana Thibault
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8/1/13
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PEACEDALE – We all forget things, now and again. However, if your elementary or middle school student always seems to forget his or her homework or loses it between school and home, he or she might not be doing it on purpose. If that same child …
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Randy Kulman, Ph.D.
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8/1/13
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NEW YORK – Jewish day schools make a difference in the lives of children, their teachers and the communities they serve, according to information from Yeshiva University Institute for University-School Partnership.
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8/1/13
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PAWTUCKET – Otilia (Tanya) Plungyan was the youngest of six children born July 13, 1913 to a modest merchant and his wife.
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Sophia Friedman
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8/1/13
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PROVIDENCE – With the new Jewish year of 5774 starting next month and a new school year fast approaching, we’re taking the opportunity to rename and redesign the newspaper with this issue. We think these changes will help make the newspaper …
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8/1/13
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PROVIDENCE – Adam Tilove, the new Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island head of school, is relieved that Providence has good pizza. He riffed about pizza and talked seriously about JCDS with The Jewish Voice shortly after he, his wife Marni …
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Arthur C. Norman
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8/1/13
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PROVIDENCE – Lions of Judah women who participated in the mission to Cuba (Seehttp://preview.tinyurl.com/myfh4dw, “On a mission to Cuba, with the JDC,” by Susan Leach DeBlasio, in the April 26 issue) attended a reunion at the home of Larry and …
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8/1/13
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KIBBUTZ GESHER, Israel – Don’t let anyone tell you that time and distance will harm the closeness of our community! Just the opposite, I say; sometimes it shows the importance of maintaining our communities’ relations, and can even make them …
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Michael Meyerheim
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8/1/13
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KINGSTON – This fall, Aaron Guttin, 23, is going back to school – again. But this time, he heads to the campus of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, where he will serve URI Hillel as its Jewish student life coordinator.
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8/1/13
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PROVIDENCE – Although I stare at my computer screen in the comforts of my home, I see myself walking between glass display cases filled with thousands and thousands of shoes.
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Marsha Gibber
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8/1/13
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