“Mental: An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy,” featuring Jewish comedian and author Eddie Sarfaty, and benefiting the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus, will take place 7 p.m. Monday, April 26 at Lush, 990 Central Ave. N.E., Minneapolis. Sarfaty’s stand-up comedy will celebrate the release of his book, Mental: Funny in the Head (Kensington Press).
Sarfaty has appeared on The [...]

There are numerous similarities in the mass murder of Jews during World War II and the genocide of Armenians

(Editor’s note: The American Jewish World’s editorial style requires the capitalization of the word “Holocaust,” in connection with the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis. Despite the point being made by the author here, that [...]

Dr. Rick Hodes (left) was joined by Taka Larson, a survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, on Sunday at the Sabes JCC. (Photo: Mordecai Specktor)

The 2010 Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival ended a successful run on Sunday, with an appearance by Dr. Rick Hodes, whose humanitarian work in Ethiopia is the focus of the [...]

On a beautiful spring afternoon, about 30 people gathered in a Walter Library conference room, on the University of Minnesota campus, to hear Elhanan Yakira, the Schulman Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Yakira spoke Thursday on “The Holocaust and the Jewish State.” His talk touched on some of the material in his most recent [...]

The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival opens tonight at 7 p.m. with Max Manus, a Norwegian film about the resistance to the Nazi occupation. In 2000, the American Jewish World wrote about one of the heroes of the Norwegian resistance, Gunnar Sønsteby, who will attend the opening night festivities.
Sønsteby, who is portrayed in the fictional narrative [...]

Films about Goebbels’ favorite director and a disgraced Republican lobbyist are among the offerings at this year’s premier local film fest
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR
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 [...]

CNN Hero Dr. Rick Hodes, featured in Bewoket: By the Will of God, will speak after the film and at a Maimonides Society brunch

AJW Staff Report

The Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival will wrap up on April 18. The films will be screened at the Sabes JCC, 4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S., St. Louis Park, [...]

Anat Cohen, one of today’s most gifted jazz musicians, will perform April 25 at the Dakota Jazz Club

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR

Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman reigned over the radio airwaves and hotel ballrooms of America in the 1930s and ’40s. The “King of Swing,” as he was dubbed by Gene Krupa, was born May [...]

In Israel’s hospitals political differences are left at the front door. The job of healing makes no distinction as far as race, religion and ethnicity. Hospitals in Israel are models of peaceful coexistence. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, who was raised in Gaza’s teeming Jubaliya refugee camp, realized his dream of becoming a doctor and entered this [...]

Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities needs to raise more than $500,000 by May 15 to remain open

By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor

Rabbi Moshe Weiss tears up when talking about the community of Cottage Grove.
“I didn’t realize the extent of our impact that we’ve had on the community, and vice versa, [...]