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The Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island

By Kate-Lynne Laroche
& Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
The Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island (JORI) began as two separate organizations. In 1908, initially headed by the South Providence Ladies’ Aid Society and Mr. Herman Paster, the first charter for a specifically Jewish children’s orphanage was…

Jewish Sites in Central Falls and Pawtucket

By Linda Lotridge Levin
& Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
It was 1905, and five orthodox Jewish men from Pawtucket signed incorporation papers for a synagogue to be called The Congregation Ohawe Shalom. The only problem was that they had no money for a building, so they were forced to worship in a variety…

Sons of Jacob Synagogue

By Ruth Breindel & Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
The founders of the Sons of Jacob, an Orthodox synagogue, had a vision: a soaring edifice in the North End of Providence that would be a symbol of their prosperity and place in the new world. Having fled the pogroms in Russia and Poland and unrest…

South Providence - A personal history

By Geraldine Foster
& Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
This area was almost totally Irish when I and my compatriots from Austria and Romania began our life in Providence in the early 1880’s on Robinson St. After 1900, Russian Jews fleeing pogroms came to South Providence. Most arrived with little in the…

Touro Cemetery

By Ruth Breindel & Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Jews can have religious services any place, but you need hallowed ground for a burial. Although the Newport cemetery was established in 1677, Touro Synagogue was consecrated in 1763. Touro is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Rhode Island, established…

If these walls could talk…

By Cynthia Benjamin & Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Solomon Treital is believed to be the first Jew to settle in Woonsocket. This scholarly and deeply religious man arrived in 1866, and soon established himself as a clothier in the downtown Market Square. Treital’s brother, Max, arrived two years…
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