RI Playwright Explores Jewish Experience
After Oct. 7 Attacks in ‘Picking Up Stones’

Former Chariho High School English teacher Sandy Laub reflects on the year since the attacks on Israel

Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”
Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”
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Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”
Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”
Sandy Laub
RI Playwright Explores Jewish Experience
After Oct. 7 Attacks in ‘Picking Up Stones’
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The Jewish High Holy Days this year have also been a time of reflection and mourning a year after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.

Rhode Island playwright Sandy Laub wrote a one-person play after the tragedy called “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”

She sat down with Alex Nunes of The Public’s Radio to share her thoughts a year after the attacks.

This interview was conducted by The Public’s Radio. You can read the entire story here.

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