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 [...]