'Punching the Clown' mines folksingers' misfortune and misadventures for laughs
Henry Phillips walks onstage in a scene from Gregori Viens new film "Punching the Clown." (Photo: Viens Films, LLC) In ...
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Film to highlight two of the Righteous Among the Nations
Journey to Freedom will be screened on Oct. 9 Until 2006, only one American, Varian Fry, had ever been named ...
Have a little faith
Best-selling author Mitch Albom will talk about his new book on Oct. 18 at Temple Israel By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN ...
Howard Oransky artworks are on view at Mpls. gallery
Local artist Howard Oransky’s “Distant Thoughts” (below) is one of the works displayed as part of the Shared Distance exhibit ...
North High class of ’36 reunites
Twenty classmates gather at Byerly’s for 73rd reunion By ERIN ELLIOTT /Â Community News Editor When Lordean Stattine Wick retired more ...
Adath Jeshurun taps star power for benefit
Charles and Phyllis Newman Family Foundation will sponsor Beyoncé concert as a fundraiser for shul, other charities By STEVEN ROSENBAUM ...
In concert: Leonard Cohen turns up the graciousness
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR You don’t know me from the wind / you never will, you never did I’m the little ...
Jewish Minnesotans dominate ‘Madoff list’
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR After the AJW went to press last week with a story about private foundations that suffered losses ...
Victims of Madoff scam in Twin Cities reveal new details
The local fallout from the Bernard Madoff scam was updated in an article last week in Fortune magazine. Writer Dave Kansas, ...
Local Jewish investors lose millions in Madoff scam
Trusted Wall Street insider preyed on members of Jewish country clubs in Twin Cities By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Members of Oak ...
