UMJA works to digitize Jewish World archives
AJW Staff Report The Upper Midwest Jewish Archives (UMJA) at the University of Minnesota is raising money to digitize nearly ...
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He remade his life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In a 2011 documentary, Sam Rafowitz: Remaking a Life, the eponymous subject comments: “About 15 and a ...
Minnesota artists create in isolation
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Many artists work by themselves as part of their creative process. The shelter-at-home orders may seem irrelevant ...
Dying once is enough
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How Simon Stranger’s last name is pronounced in Norwegian, I don’t know, but pronounced in English, ...
Eliana Pierotti receives Howie Stillman Young Leadership Award
By AJW Staff Report Washburn High School senior Eliana Pierotti is the recipient of this year’s Howie Stillman Young Leadership ...
Editorial: The fire this time
“Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in ...
In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Earlier this year, Dani Rotstein was earning a living doing something he’s passionate about: ...
5 things to know as Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial gets underway, at long last
By MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — After more than three years of investigation, charges in three cases and three national ...
Sholom CEO on COVID-19: ‘There’s no end in sight’
By ADRIAN GLASS-MOORE / Assistant Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has hit senior care facilities especially hard, and Sholom is no ...
Editorial: How is everyone doing?
I hope that Jewish World readers are staying safe by isolating at home, as the novel coronavirus is cutting a ...
