Minnesota
‘Keep on keeping on,’ Jewish supporters tell Ilhan Omar
By ADRIAN GLASS-MOORE The intense backlash that Rep. Ilhan Omar has faced in her first months in office has led...
Rep. Omar provokes Jewish House Dems
AJW Staff Report As the Jewish World went to press this week, House Democratic leaders were planning to vote on...
Controversy at U of M: Whom do we honor?
By MAX SPARBER / Community News Editor The latest in a long series of discussions regarding the honoring of people...
Cantor Richard Schwartz: Judaism as a creative enterprise
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Richard J. Schwartz, who was hired in July 2018 as the cantor for Bet Shalom Congregation in...
Minnetonka High School officials respond to anti-Semitic social media post
AJW staff report An anti-Semitic incident at Minnetonka High School recently attracted national attention. Two students were recently photographed engaged...
Ilhan Omar reverses stance on BDS
AJW Staff Report Ilhan Omar, elected Nov. 6 to represent Minnesota’s Fifth District in the U.S. House, seemed to reverse...
JCRC: Seeking safety after Pittsburgh
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor In the wake of the Oct. 27 mass shooting in Pittsburgh, which killed 11...
John Moe: Talking about depression
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Radio personality John Moe has experience with depression. As is often the case, there...
Herb Fantle: A good life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Not many members of Minnesota’s Jewish community saw Adolf Hitler speak. In 2012, Herb Fantle, who survived...
Ilhan Omar, who once called Israel an ‘apartheid regime,’ wins DFL Fifth District primary
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ilhan Omar, who once called Israel an "apartheid regime," but who more recently came out against the...
