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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

Rhode Island

Local residents cast their primary day ballots on April 26, 2016, in Philadelphia, as primary voting takes place in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images/AFP)
March 9, 2023, 12:06 pm
Four US states have a presidential primary falling on the first day of Passover
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Rhode Island to hold vote on April 23, 2024, when many observant Jews don’t write, drive or use electricity, making voting impossible
By Ron Kampeas
A meme about Anne Frank posted by the Atlantic Sports and Bar on July 22, 2022. (Screen capture)
July 26, 2022, 5:02 pm
‘Hotter than an oven’: Rhode Island bar apologizes for online joke about Anne Frank
Atlantic Sports and Bar says employee behind heatwave post didn’t know who Holocaust victim was and quickly deleted meme upon realizing
By ToI Staff
The Daily Briefing
May 6, 2021, 2:29 pm
Daily Briefing May 6 – Can Lapid light the way toward a stable government?
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
Patients wearing face masks and personal protective equipment wait on line for COVID-19 testing outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, March 27, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)
March 28, 2020, 6:32 am
States impose new restrictions on travelers from New York
Directives raise concerns about loss of civil liberties as authorities seek to stem spread of coronavirus
By Philip Marcelo and Mark Pratt
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signs a Memorandum of Understanding between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the State of Rhode Island. (courtesy, Ben Gurion University)
November 26, 2019, 8:14 pm
Rhode Island signs cooperation agreement with Ben-Gurion University
Pact encourages the US state and the Israeli university to create business startups and internships, as well as partnerships with Rhode Island colleges and universities
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks during a debate at URI's Edwards Hall Auditorium on October 15, 2018. (Matthew J. Lee/Getty Images via JTA)
October 24, 2019, 8:27 am
Rhode Island governor meets Jewish anti-ICE group, backs ban on private prisons
After meeting with local Never Again chapter, Gov. Raimondo announces she would support legislation against opening such jails, although no such state bill is under consideration
By JTA
In this still image from video provided by WLNE-TV, protesters blocking an entrance to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility begin to move as a pickup truck approaches, Wednesday night, Aug. 14, 2019, in Central Falls, R.I. (WLNE-TV via AP)
August 16, 2019, 11:24 pm
ICE officer who drove his truck into row of Jewish protesters resigns
Investigation into actions of Captain Thomas Woodworth outside detention center is ongoing; protest was part of opposition to Trump’s immigration policy
By JTA
In this still image from video provided by WLNE-TV, protesters blocking an entrance to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility begin to move as a pickup truck approaches, Wednesday night, Aug. 14, 2019, in Central Falls, R.I. (WLNE-TV via AP)
August 16, 2019, 4:00 am
Immigration officer who drove into Rhode Island Jewish protesters put on leave
Five demonstrators with Never Again Action hospitalized after driver runs truck through group blocking ICE detention center
By JTA
A pickup truck drives into a row of Jewish protesters sitting at the entrance to a parking lot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island on August 14, 2019. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)
August 15, 2019, 8:12 am
Several US Jewish protesters hurt as truck rams crowd at immigration center
At least one demonstrator hospitalized; dozens doused with pepper spray; activists say driver is a US correctional officer
By JTA and ToI Staff
Women’s March National Co-Chair Tamika Mallory speaking in New York, April 22, 2017. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)
May 5, 2018, 12:25 am
Rhode Island group splits with Women’s March
Local chapter says it broke ties with organization because it continues to work with co-president Tamika Mallory, who attended an event where Louis Farrakhan called Jews his enemy
By AP
Principal Jay Brennan of Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, Rhode Island.(Screen capture: YouTube)
January 25, 2018, 6:53 pm
Rhode Island school head resigns over video disparaging Jews and blacks
Longtime Bishop Hendricken High School principal apologizes, says he’s not an ant-Semitic or racist
By JTA
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for National Security Adviser, waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, December 12, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
December 2, 2017, 8:57 am
Michael Flynn: Disgraced former spy chief undone by Russia entanglement
It took retired three-star general just 10 months from being sworn in as president’s national security adviser to pleading guilty to lying to FBI
By Paul Handley
The Myers rimonim at the center of the Touro synagogue dispute. (Courtesy: Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
September 6, 2017, 8:10 pm
Newport congregation renews battle for artifacts at oldest US synagogue
Jeshuat Israel calls for federal court to rehear case granting custody of ornaments at Touro to NY’s Shearith Israel
By JTA
Visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2009. (AP/Eric J. Shelton)
August 10, 2017, 4:12 am
Losing side wants review in fight over oldest US synagogue
Local community challenges ruling putting Rhode Island building, and $7.4 million decorative silver bells it houses, under control of NY-based congregation
By Michelle R. Smith
Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest extant synagogue in the United States, seen on September 2, 2004. (John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images/via JTA)
August 6, 2017, 4:48 am
Who owns America’s oldest synagogue? It’s a 350-year-old argument
Touro, built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island, looms large in US Jewish history; it has also come to signify the tension between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews
By Ben Sales
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