Tag: Mordecai Specktor

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom has the highest regard for the folks who organized his recent group ...

Glenn Greenwald had the scoop of the century, so far, with his reporting on the trove of documents taken by ...

Young Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was abducted by Hamas militants in a raid across the Gaza-Israel border, on June ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Musicologists say that the banjo had its origins in West Africa. A number of banjo-type instruments have ...

Prior to being hired by the American Jewish World, I worked at the Capitol in St. Paul. I was a ...

The 2014 Twin Cities Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Commemoration took place Sunday night at Temple of Aaron Synagogue in ...

Marking 10 years of recording and performing success, the Idan Raichel Project schedules a St. Paul concert By MORDECAI SPECKTOR ...

We have some news about Israel in this edition of the Jewish World, ahead of the observance of Yom HaZikaron, ...

“A Bintel Brief” (Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters”) was the popular advice column that began running, in 1906, in ...

Photo: Karlien Du Plessis/Dreamstime Stock Photos The American Jewish World — the newspaper of Minnesota's Jewish community — will publish a ...