Join the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and Temple Beth-El in welcoming award-winning journalist of Haaretz Allison Kaplan Sommer.

Allison has been a journalist at Haaretz since 2012, hosts the Haaretz Weekend podcast and is a co-host of The Promised Podcast. She is the former Washington DC bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and has also written for the New Republic, Politico, and other publications. She won a 2016 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism for Excellence in Diaspora Reportage and the 2017 Simon Rockower award for excellence in covering Zionism, Aliyah and Israel.

Originally from Rhode Island, she has lived in Israel since 1993, and lives in Ra’anana with her husband and children.