Tag: Mordecai Specktor

The big football news, post-Super Bowl, is that Missouri All-American defensive end Michael Sam is gay. "I am an openly, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Growing up in St. Louis Park, Sharon Isbin had a passion for model rocketry. When the Jewish ...

An epochal event in American culture will be marked in about a week: the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ appearance ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Two Israelis charged with multiple felony counts of unlawfully employing young Israelis at a Mall of America ...

In early December 2001, I traveled to Israel with 107 other Jewish Twin Citians on a federation-sponsored “solidarity mission.” It ...

What will the year 2014 hold in store? In the past I’ve attributed the following quotation to Yogi Berra, the ...

As an idealistic young teenager, I got involved in the Civil Rights movement by selling brotherhood buttons (depicting a black ...

Although many jazz fans don’t even know his name, Marty Ehrlich is a composer and musician of rare gifts, in ...

This weekend, Nov. 9-10, marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when the Nazis staged an ...

 Peter Himmelman’s creativity seminar, Big Muse, is open to all on Nov. 17 in Minneapolis By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The traditional ...