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Protests and arrests on U of M campus
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor In the early morning on Tuesday, April 23, Students for Justice in Palestine, UMN...
Talmud Torah of St. Paul to close afternoon school
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Small class sizes may have been a benefit during the pandemic, but just a...
Keren Or, a creative arts forum for Jewish teens, marks 20 years
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Over many years, American Jewish World readers enjoyed a spring issue that included a supplement with award-winning...
A royal deception in service to humanity
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In an unusual contrast to gentiles saving Jews from the Nazis, Jewish Pepi Mehlberg saved Poles....
My time with the Greek Jewish community
The Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial stands outside of Eleftherias Square, meant to be a memorial park, now just a parking lot....
Evan Maurer invigorated Jewish arts in Minnesota
By JUDITH BRIN INGBER Evan Maclyn Maurer died Nov. 2, 2023, in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79. Maurer was...
Kids, enter the AJW Hanuka Cover Contest!
iStock The Jewish World is accepting submissions for our 32nd annual Hanuka Cover Contest. We’re looking for colorful drawings by...
One of Minnesota’s most accomplished women, Geri Joseph, dies at 100
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor “Growing up I knew that she was not at all like my friends’ grandmothers,”...
Editorial: A visit to Denmark and Sweden — and war breaks out
My wife, Maj-Britt, and I boarded a flight for Amsterdam on Oct. 5. We set off to visit our expat...
Rabbi Harold Kravitz steps down
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rabbi Harold Kravitz was preparing for a family vacation on the Jersey shore when the Jewish World...
