Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Machinist says he was fired for wearing Star of David

Jewish man from Plymouth files employment discrimination complaint with state agency

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR

A Plymouth man has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, contending that he was fired from his job for wearing a Star of David pendant.
In the statement filed with his complaint, William E. Broze says [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Love in the Shoah

Two local plays — Jack and Rochelle and A Report on the Banality of Love — offer divergent views on relationships during a cataclysmic time in Europe
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN

A Report on the Banality of Love, the current production at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, is a play not for the faint of intellect, nor [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

A Zionist pioneer from Minneapolis

Saadia Gelb, a pillar of Kibbutz Kfar Blum in Israel, was the forerunner for a generation of progressive Labor Zionist youth
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR
Many American Jews feel a strong loyalty to Israel, and some even make aliya. And then there was Saadia Gelb.
The former Minneapolis resident, by way of Borislav, Poland, was a founder of Habonim, [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Editorial: Celebrating our Feast of Freedom

In Jewish homes around the world on the evening of March 29, the 14th of Nisan, families will sit around the seder table and recount the story of the liberation of our people from cruel bondage in Egypt. We are commanded to refrain from eating leavened bread during the eight-day holiday; also, we are commanded [...]

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