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 ...
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A Latvian immigrant’s story resurfaces
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor David Blumenfeld may well have experienced the American Dream. He left Latvia and arrived ...
Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School becomes Smith Jewish Academy
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor The Amos and Celia Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School will open its doors in ...
Jewish World celebrates 110 years of publication
The July issue of the Jewish World will look back on the newspaper's 110 years of continuous publication. (A publication ...
Jay Eisenberg fills multiple roles onstage and off
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN How and why would Jay Owen Eisenberg, a native New Yorker, a theater major graduate of the ...
Kim Kivens treads the boards in CDT’s production of ‘Grease’
The cast of "Grease," with Kim Kivens front and center, at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. (Photo: Dan Norman) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN ...
Or Emet member-turned-leader becomes congregation’s first rabbi
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Eva Cohen is the first Humanistic rabbi to lead a congregation in Minnesota. Her ...
Writing ‘Scotland, PA’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Michael Mitnick is not from Minnesota, and his play Scotland, PA isn’t about Jews. But Mitnick is Jewish, and like the ...
Honor your graduate in the Jewish World
The American Jewish World will publish a special section, "Honoring Our Graduates," in the June 2024 issue. AJW readers are ...
Shylock returns to visit his daughter
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN In the early part of the 20th century, my dad grew up in a small coal mining ...
