Welcome to the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Website!

There are lots of changes happening for the RI Jewish Historical Association in 2018, make sure to stay up-to-date with all of them by reading our quarterly newsletters, reading our articles and notices published in the Jewish Voice, and of course the RIJHA Notes!

 

Upcoming Events: The RIJHA Annual Spring meeting will be held in the JCC Social Hall on Sunday May 6th at 2:00pm. Speaker Rabbi Joshua Breindel of Temple Anshe Amunim, Pittsfield, MA will discuss “Most of us live off Hope: Memories of a Jewish Childhood”

Spring Newsletter to be sent out in late April

Announcement

January 2018 Newsletter

The first quarterly newsletter of 2018 will be sent out shortly after our Open House – be sure to check it out for many important updates!

Research Services

Beginning the week of January 22nd, we will not be taking research requests while our Executive Director and Researcher Kate-Lynne Laroche is out on maternity leave.

We will resume accepting research requests in the beginning of May 2018. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Gallery

Billy Winn Dressed for Her Performance Jewish Patriarch Mordecai Newzow, 96, with traditional prayer shawl about his shoulders, reads his prayer as Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, draws near. Young Students Saluting the Flag at Camp Jori in Point Judith, RI in 1937

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