Tag: Mordecai Specktor

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC) issued a press release on Aug. 6, which congratulated ...

Rabbi Aaron Weininger, of Adath Jeshurun Congregation, called me early last week. He was in Jerusalem, with a Rabbinical Assembly ...

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein returns to Minneapolis on Aug. 6, for a show at the Dakota with Billy Martin’s Wicked Knee ...

As AJW readers might recall, I was in Israel last summer. For more than a week — in Jerusalem, Tel ...

Renowned guitarist Jorma Kaukonen returns to Minneapolis with his Hot Tuna mates for two nights this month By MORDECAI SPECKTOR ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Over eight seasons in the Big Leagues, Ron Blomberg, a Jewish ballplayer from Georgia, had a .293 ...

J.J. Goldberg is a perspicacious longtime observer of the American Jewish community. A former editor and current columnist for the ...

Aharon Appelfeld, a native of Czernowitz, Bukovina, and one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists, has set most of his stories ...

The nations of the world have expressed their concern about the Iranian regime’s apparent drive to develop nuclear weapons. Iran, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Gabriel Kahane’s new album, The Ambassador (Sony Masterworks), is made up of 10 songs from 10 varied ...