By MORDECAI SPECKTOR
It was not the publicity the Lubavitchers were looking for.
Rabbi Manis Friedman, an esteemed Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi from St. Paul, became the focus of controversy last week stemming from his short article in the recent issue of Moment magazine.
In the magazine’s “Ask the Rabbis” column, Friedman, and rabbis from other Jewish streams, responded to [...]

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu relates story of Uganda’s Abayudaya community
By TAMAR FENTON
When Israeli commandos stormed the airport terminal in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976, they and the 260 passengers of the hijacked aircraft were probably unaware that a small Ugandan Jewish community had gathered in their village 175 miles away to pray for the safety [...]

After raising money and awareness of the genocide in Darfur over the past four years, eighth graders at the Talmud Torah of St. Paul are graduating to the next level of global advocacy

By ERIN ELLIOTT / Community News Editor
When the Talmud Torah of St. Paul’s eighth grade graduating class leaves the school, they will take with [...]

A three-part sculpture by Minneapolis artist Perci Chester titled “Gyr Family Cycle” will be installed in the new Edina Promenade Park, a one-and-a-half mile paved pedestrian and bike pathway system located southeast of 70th Street and France Avenue. An opening ceremony will take place 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at the park, where Chester’s work will [...]

As this edition of the American Jewish World goes to press, it seems like there is an inordinate amount of bad news in the pages. There are reports of Jews behaving badly — uttering racist, profane and inhumane comments that do not reflect the high ideals of our prophetic tradition, to say the least.
So we [...]

[The security guard shot at the Holocaust Museum has died; see Update.]
NBC is reporting that James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from Maryland, is the gunman involved in the shooting this afternoon at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 
Brunn may have had connections to white supremacist hate groups, according to NBC.
MSNBC is reporting [...]