It’s our shared responsibility to fight hate

Our state’s motto is simply “Hope.” For many right now, feelings of hope may feel distant and difficult to achieve. But we must remember, we all have a responsibility to one …

From the publisher

A plan to create a stronger Jewish community

Friday, October 2, 2020

In December 2019 I sat in a Newport living room with more than 25 members of our community, and I listened. The group was diverse in age, diverse in denomination, and diverse in politics and …

d'Var Torah

When will we be truly safe and free?

We live in a country that declares that each of us has the inalienable right to be free. Of course, comparing the freedoms we have today with those we had under Paro is quite interesting. But are we …

From sibling rivalry to sibling revelry

Birdland: a partnership

Parashat Vayechi: Everything in a name

Editor's column

Freedom is more important than ever

’Tis the season to write about freedom. It is the central theme in the Haggadah, the story of Passover. It’s an ongoing theme in my April columns. There is no better time than …

Bring on the happiness

Winter ramblings

Grateful to avoid the pressure of resolutions

Light in the cold darkness

Mike Fink

There’s more to Columbus than meets the eye

Did you know that a pigeon is a dove and that the word “columbus” means just that in Latin, the bird that makes a cooing, melancholy melody over all the continents and builds …

Rabbi James Rosenberg

“Yochanan’s Gamble”

Friday, April 4

David Brooks, yet again

Thursday, March 6

“The Necessity of Exile”

Friday, February 14

We are each other

Thursday, January 9

A surprising novel from Mark Binder

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Larry Kessler

Ups and downs of the ‘new normal’

Friday, October 2, 2020

In the summer of 2019, well before our lives were upended by the seemingly never-ending “new normal,” I wrote a column about how my wife and I were about to become empty-nesters. At that …

From the archives

From generation to generation

Seventy years ago, David Charak Adelman saw his idea for a new organization become a reality. For many years, Adelman had been collecting “Rhode Island Americana” – printed …

Spring cleaning reveals old memories

Spring of 1951 revisited

The beautiful tea cups nobody wants