Howard Zinn, an outspoken historian who influenced generations of leftist political activists, died of a heart attack Wednesday in California. He was 87.
The son of Jewish immigrants, Zinn reached a wide audience with his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States, which explored U.S. history through the lens of the experiences of dissidents, women, African [...]
Scholars of the Holocaust and genocide history met Jan. 26 in Stockholm, Sweden, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Stockholm Declaration, which established Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date of the somber commemoration marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945.
At the invitation of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs — after writing [...]
You probably heard about the tefillin scare yesterday on a US Airways flight from New York to Louisville. Seventeen-year-old Caleb Leibowitz was laying tefillin, when a panicked flight attendant alerted the flight crew that something was amiss, and the plane was diverted to Philadelphia.
Of course, the young pious Jew had no explosives in his phylacteries [...]
One of the few Jewish American ambassadors in the Arab world finds life fascinating in Morocco
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR
Sam Kaplan, a prominent Minneapolis lawyer and leading DFL activist, enjoys reading the American Jewish World. However, over the last few months Kaplan and his wife, Sylvia, get their copy of the newspaper a couple of [...]
Jewish chauvinism aside, it’s a fact that Jews composed the great majority of tunes that make up the body of work known as the Great American Songbook. David Lehman, in A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Shocken/Nextbook) details how Jewish musical geniuses — Berlin, Gershwin, Hammerstein, Bernstein et al. — were inspired by American life [...]
Do not stand by the blood of your fellow. — Leviticus 19:16
We know that the people of Haiti are suffering greatly in the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake last week that devastated their impoverished country. There is something that AJW readers can do in the face of this immense human tragedy: donate money to the [...]
Lenore Skenazy will appear Jan. 24 at the St. Paul JCC, in an extended Jewish Book Fair event
AJW Staff Report
In the practice of journalism one never knows what will strike a nerve. New York Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy found out in April 2008, when she wrote about her decision to let her nine-year-old [...]
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN
The ancient cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea knew about the power of pixels long before computers were invented. Only they called their pixels “mosaics” and used them to create lasting works of art that we still enjoy centuries later.
Minneapolis artist Connie Cohen understands the power and versatility of the little tiles that are [...]
Last week the pundits had Norm Coleman leaning toward entering the race for Minnesota governor. One longtime Republican insider, Sarah Janacek, even put the odds at 3 to 1 in favor of the former senator throwing his hat in the ring. And that’s what AJWNEWs.com reported last week.
Norm Coleman at the 2008 Republican National Convention [...]
“I think I did very well by Minnesota. I kept my head down and did my job,” Sen. Al Franken tells the Pioneer Press, in an interview about his first six months as a senator.
Al Franken is shown with his wife, Franni, at a Jan. 11 rally in support of Israel at the Sabes JCC [...]
