The glorification of Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, has become the vested interest of certain segments of American Jewry and of the individuals in Israel and abroad who played a role in the operation
By MOSHE GIT
More than four years ago, the editor of the American Jewish World asked me to [...]

Earmark in big spending bill provides $250,000 for caregiver coaching
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor
When President Barack Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 on Dec. 17, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis (JFCS) received $250,000 to fund services for caregivers in the local community.
Among the spending bills included in the act [...]

To stay in its Cottage Grove home, Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities has to find $620,000 in mortgage financing by Feb. 1
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR
Rabbi Moshe Weiss, director of Yeshiva High School of Twin Cities, says that his school is “between a rock and a hard place.”
The school for Orthodox Jewish boys [...]

Marv Davidov is known locally as a guiding light of the Honeywell Project, the campaign to stop the Minneapolis-based firm’s manufacture of conventional and nuclear weapons. In You Can’t Do That! Marv Davidov, Nonviolent Revolutionary (Nodin Press), poet Carol Masters provides an empathetic account of the colorful life of a local radical political activist. She [...]

The American Jewish World occasionally publishes articles about the environmental crisis and what is being done to repair our battered planet. Recent visitors from Israel — from the Arava Institute and the Center for Creative Ecology, both located in the Arava Desert — have filled us in on innovative programs in alternative sources of energy [...]