Benny’s dream comes true
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Growing up in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul — the ...
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Tapping to experience the truth of who you are
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we ...
‘Judaism does not demand belief’
Why Be Jewish? A Testament, by Edgar M. Bronfman, Twelve, 237 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER For people perplexed ...
‘Imagine That’ sounds sublime
Drummer Daniel Freedman follows up his acclaimed 2012 album, Bamako by Bus, with Imagine That (Anzic Records), a vibrant collection ...
Merrick Garland nominated for Supreme Court
In an emotional Rose Garden address, Garland credits his Jewish roots for career accomplishments (JTA) — New U.S. Supreme Court ...
In a land of immigrants
AJW Staff Report In the introduction to From Selfie to Groupie, by Jeff Bliumis and Alina Bliumis, who are also ...
Adelson on Trump: ‘Why not?’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sheldon Adelson said, “Why not?” when asked if he could support Donald Trump’s candidacy. Tal Schneider, an ...
Jamaica’s music and Jews
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Christopher Columbus was shipwrecked in Jamaica for more than a year in ...
Sabes JCC stages ‘They Called Her Captain’
Maggie Bearmon Pistner remounts her one-woman show, which tells the story of her mother’s army service during World War II ...
Israel’s great poet, Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Farrar, Straus and ...
