JEWISH RHODE ISLAND

EDITOR Fran Ostendorf

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CONTRIBUTORS Cynthia Benjamin, Sarah Greenleaf, Robert Isenberg, Emma Newbery

COLUMNISTS Michael Fink, George M. Goodwin, Larry Kessler, Patricia Raskin, Rabbi James Rosenberg, Daniel Stieglitz

VOLUME XXX, ISSUE VIII

JEWISH RHODE ISLAND

(ISSN number 1539-2104, USPS #465-710) is published monthly except twice in May, August and September.

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ON THE COVER : Staying cool in the pool at Summer J-Camp. PHOTO | GLENN OSMUNDSON