Tag: Minneapolis

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR For more than a century, juries in criminal cases in the United States have been instructed that ...

Born in prison, local Jewish author Deborah Jiang Stein looks back at the struggles of her life and how she ...

AJW Staff Report Pauline Phillips, the woman known to the world as the advice columnist behind “Dear Abby,” has died ...

For more than 30 years, the local Sephardi Minyan has conducted services and fostered a sense of community among those ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When we last talked, in December 2010, Cathy Ladman was living in south Minneapolis. She had some ...

The day before the Jewish World went to press this week, the family of Noah Pozner buried their son and ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a St. Paul federal court hearing last Friday, on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit alleging ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen reports that she was spared the calamitous effects of Hurricane Sandy. “We’re some ...

Leaders from 15 local religious organizations will eat on the average weekly food-stamp allowance to raise awareness of hunger and ...

AJW Staff Report A number of Orthodox religious groups are asking to be allowed to file a friend of the ...