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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…

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…

Organizing for Equality

By By Tom Begley with Ann O’Leary with research support from Lee Blake and the New Bedford Historical Society and Lighting the Way: Historic Women of the SouthCoast, an initiative of New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Equality was the vision driving Elizabeth Carter Brooks’ (1867-1951) work as an educator, social activist, and architect. She wove these seemingly separate paths into a long life of advocacy for African Americans of New Bedford and beyond in a time…
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