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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

It was media preview day today for the extensively publicized new exhibit, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed the World, at the Science Museum of Minnesota. The exhibit of the earliest version of the Hebrew Bible opens tomorrow at the museum in downtown St. Paul opens and runs through Oct. 24.

A fragment from the Genesis [...]

David Lehman, the author of seven volumes of poetry, examines what is Jewish about American popular song, and how Jewish songwriters “were reinventing themselves as American and changing America itself at the same time,” in A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook/Schocken).
Inspired by both African-American blues and jazz and Jewish liturgical music, Irving Berlin, [...]

Rabbi Mordechai Yitzchok Friedman vents in Brooklyn
Although this “Jewish Tea Party” meeting took place on Purim, apparently it’s not a joke. In a report for the Forward, Gal Beckerman finds a small group, no more than 15 people, gathered in a Brooklyn synagogue basement for an interactive session with Rabbi Mordechai Yitzchok Friedman.
The rabbi sticks [...]

When one thinks of the Nazis and film, the name Leni Riefenstahl might come to mind. But the now largely unknown Veit Harlan was the most popular director in Germany during the Third Reich.
In a fascinating new documentary, Harlan: In the Shadow of “Jew Süss,” director Felix Moeller looks at Harlan’s career and plumbs the [...]

In its latest investigation into the demise of Home Valu, the home improvement firm founded by former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, Fox 9 News reported last night that the Anoka County Attorney is investigating allegations that the company defrauded subcontractors hired to install products.
Here is an excerpt from Fox9.com:
Gary Miller, a subcontractor who installed floors [...]

Adath Jeshurun’s ‘Jews, Food and Planet Earth’ Synaplex Shabbat will feature environmentalist Nigel Savage

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your [...]