The American Jewish World is accepting applications for two summer internship positions:
Editorial Internship
The AJW editorial intern will assist with editing and proofreading copy, conducting phone and in-person interviews, and proposing and writing feature stories. Additional duties will include helping out with all aspects of the annual Community Guide and general office tasks as [...]

Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company’s current musical comedy coincides with a crucial time in the state’s political history
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN
When was the last time you left the theater humming a song after seeing a show for the first time?
Guests will have a good choice of songs to hum, and an even larger menu [...]

Rabbi Berel and Sara Simpser, formerly of Aish Minnesota, have formed Kesher – Your Jewish Connection. Together with Kenesseth Israel Congregation in St. Louis Park, the newly formed organization will participate in the 16th annual Shabbat Across America and Canada program.
Members of Minneapolis’ Jewish community will gather in a display of Jewish revitalization [...]

According to a new AP story, Gross understood the dangers he faced in Cuba and called his enterprise ‘risky business in no uncertain terms’
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the Jews of Cuba, it was the ultimate Internet connection.
The high-tech equipment that U.S. contractor Alan Gross brought with him to Cuba in 2009 [...]

Walker Art Center, Sabes JCC offer exhibits by Jewish artists from the Twin Cities and around the country
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN
Jewish artists are having a heyday currently on the west side of the Mississippi River. The challenge for local Jewish art aficionados is finding time to see it all.
For those east of the [...]

Minnesota native whose great-grandparents were murdered in the Shoah is becoming more open about his Judaism
By JASON MILLER
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA) — More than 65 years ago, Evan Kaufmann’s great-grandparents were murdered in the Auschwitz death camp. Now he is taking the ice for the German national hockey team.
Following a successful hockey career [...]

Environmental groups in the United States launched an urgent campaign early this week to stop the U.S. Senate from fast-tracking approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, with an amendment to the transportation bill. TransCanada, a Canadian-based energy firm, needs State Department approval to construct the pipeline, which would carry crude oil (diluted bitumen) [...]

Jerusalem: The Biography, by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Knopf, 650 pages, $35
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: The Biography is monumental, not only for size but for thoroughness, which is both its strength and its problem.
Named the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year, the massively researched Jerusalem tells us some of [...]

Josh Ginsburg’s star is rising in the jazz world. The talented, Brooklyn-based composer and bassist, who has played with a host of jazz luminaries over the past dozen years, has a new album, Zembla Variations (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records), which showcases his felicitous writing and prodigious chops. Drummer Rudy Royston and pianist George [...]

To reserve an ad space in the AJW’s Passover special edition, contact Mordecai Specktor at 952.259.5234 or e-mail: editor@ajwnews.com

The ad space reservation deadline is 12 pm Wednesday, March 21
For information on ad rates and specs go HERE.