From the Shoah to folklore to cosmetic surgery, alternative theater festival showcases Jewish themes

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN

Minnesota’s annual contribution to the worldwide Fringe Festival movement always has something to interest, entertain, challenge, offend or titillate every sensibility, and that includes the Jewish sensibility. For readers seeking the avant-garde, plus opportunities to experience something new and [...]

Adath Jeshurun Congregation’s 125th anniversary will continue to be marked in the next several months. The celebration kicked off at the synagogue’s recent Annual Meeting, which combined a dinner program with the release of a book of Adath’s collective history titled 125 Years of Adath Jeshurun Congregation: From Generation to Generation by Etta Fay Orkin [...]

By STEVEN ROSENBAUM

The new issue of Moment magazine revisits the controversy stirred up by the publication of a short article by Rabbi Manis Friedman, an esteemed member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect who lives in St. Paul (6-12-09 AJW).

Rabbi Manis Friedman writes again for Moment magazine. (Photo: Mordecai Specktor)

In the “Ask the Rabbis” column [...]