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Aliya representative to visit Twin Cities
Shirah Ozery, director of the Jewish Agency’s Israel Aliya Center in Chicago, will speak at Bet Shalom and host an...
Howard Zinn, popular Jewish American historian, dies at 87
Howard Zinn, an outspoken historian who influenced generations of leftist political activists, died of a heart attack Wednesday in California....
Gathering in Sweden marks 10 years since the establishment of Holocaust Remembrace Day
Scholars of the Holocaust and genocide history met Jan. 26 in Stockholm, Sweden, to mark the 10th anniversary of the...
Comedian Joel Chasnoff knows about the problem of 'Flying While Jewish'
You probably heard about the tefillin scare yesterday on a US Airways flight from New York to Louisville. Seventeen-year-old Caleb...
Ambassador Samuel Kaplan
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Sam Kaplan, a prominent Minneapolis lawyer and leading DFL activist, enjoys reading the American Jewish World. However,...
Norm Coleman announces on Facebook that he will not run for Minnesota governor
Last week the pundits had Norm Coleman leaning toward entering the race for Minnesota governor. One longtime Republican insider, Sarah...
Al Franken talks to Pioneer Press about his first six months in the U.S. Senate
"I think I did very well by Minnesota. I kept my head down and did my job," Sen. Al Franken...
DFL Progressive Caucus passes resolution urging Minnesota to divest 'Israel bonds'
The Minnesota DFL Progressive Caucus unanimously passed "a resolution to divest from Israel bonds," according to a report on TCJewfolk.com....
JDC is collecting funds for victims of catastrophic earthquake in Haiti
Sketchy press reports indicate that there could be more than 100,000 dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, which was devastated by...
PIM figures odds are '3-1 in favor' of Norm Coleman entering race for Minnesota governor
Sarah Janacek, of Politics in Minnesota (PIM), has been talking to Minnesota Republicans and divines that "the odds on Norm...
