Artworks by Rachel Leah Cohn create a mood of tranquility
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN The past 12 months have seen numerous out-of-town Jewish artists in various genres — like Lynne Avadenka’s ...
Tag: Minneapolis
Opinion: We did it!
By JOHN OSTFIELD Minneapolis went from being a very white bread, Scandinavian city with minorities of Jews, African Americans and ...
Editorial: Minnesota in the center of the ICE storm
Mourners have been paying respects at memorials to victims killed by federal immigration officers on the streets of south Minneapolis ...
Director Ben McGovern reflects on ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Six Points Theater is unquestionably a Jewish theater company. But it also prides itself on inclusivity; many ...
The Cookers return to Minneapolis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a Dec. 24 telephone interview with the Jewish World from his home in New York City, ...
Editorial: Perhaps January will be better
To paraphrase a Judith Viorst book title, December was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month. Where to start? ...
Cuban Jews endure the island nation’s precipitous decline
By MICHAEL A. APPLEMAN I had thought that the crisis and collapse of Cuba’s economy could not get worse, but ...
Esther Capp’s spirit lives on at Esther’s Table
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Thinking of Jews whose names are associated with restaurants in the Twin Cities, the first names that ...
Local social services agencies to merge
AJW Staff Report In October, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis (JFCS) announced that it will acquire Jewish Family ...
‘Purple Rain’ hits the stage in Minneapolis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR I’ll start with my Prince stories. In 1983, I was writing and doing political organizing around various ...
