Tag: American Jewish World

In this week's edition of the AJW, "About People" has the boldface names: Halie Soifer, Beth Kieffer Leonard, Dean Phillips, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a ...

High Holidays shul-goers will hear the powerful Unetane Tokef (“We shall ascribe holiness to this day”), a liturgical poem chanted ...

MGM and the American Jewish World are offering a free pass for two to an Aug. 27 preview screening of ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced her run for governor and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison filed ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR DFLer Dean Phillips, who is challenging Rep. Erik Paulsen, the Republican incumbent in the race for Minnesota’s ...

By MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Interviewing Kinky Friedman is about three parts fascinating war stories from a half-century in ...

(Editor's note: This story came in after the July 13 edition of the Jewish World went to press. Since it ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On June 30, Rabbi Morris J. Allen will lead Shabbat services at Beth Jacob Congregation for the ...

After Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party won Hungary’s 2014 parliamentary elections, they erected a “Memorial to the Victims of ...