Zalman Mlotek entertains at St. Paul JCC with musical lecture on Yiddish theater
LONG AGO ON SECOND AVENUE — Zalmen Mlotek, artistic director of The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, captivated the audience last Saturday ...
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Commentary: Way drunk on Purim
The tradition of drinking to excess on Purim is problematic, because Jews are not exempt from alcoholism By RABBI SHARON ...
'A Serious Man' arrives in Twin Cities stores
Just in time for Purim, the Coen brothers’ whimsical look at Midwest Jewish life in the 1960s is available for ...
Jewish takes on 'A Serious Man'
Focus Features, the distributor of A Serious Man, have put up a Web site devoted to varied aspects of the ...
Israeli ambassador shouted down at California university talk; police arrest 12 protesters
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke, or tried to speak, to a raucous crowd on Wednesday night at the University of ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann: If America does not support Israel, 'that is the end of the United States'
The Minnesota Independent reports today that Rep. Michele Bachmann, addressing a Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) event in Los Angeles last week, "offered ...
Sholem Aleichem translator to speak
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jewish humorist Sholem Aleichem, author Aliza Shevrin will speak 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 ...
Sharing Israel’s green-conscious values
Experience gained as a green apprentice at Kibbutz Lotan is now applied to eco-projects in low-income areas of Minneapolis By ...
Happy about the end of the world
   Millions of evangelical Christians believe that a global cataclysm is imminent, and that Israel will be the ...
Heeere’s Mohammed!
Bob Alper, a rabbi turned comedian, mines a new vein of shtick performing with Arab and Muslim comics By MORDECAI ...
