Tag: Mordecai Specktor

When the Jewish World publishes a “Celebrations” special section, it is our custom to move the social notices (B’nai Mitzva, ...

PLEASE NOTE: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 17 You can celebrate your high school or college grad with ...

Love it or hate it, you can’t avoid ‘Hava Nagila,’ part of the soundtrack of our Jewish lives By MORDECAI ...

(Editor’s Note: The last three paragraphs of this editorial were inadvertently omitted in the May 10 print edition. The full ...

In 2008, the day after the elections in the United States, I traveled to Israel with a Minneapolis Jewish Federation ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Avishai Cohen is feeling under the weather. During a recent telephone interview with the AJW from his ...

When I was a child, as my mother was preparing for Pesach — putting all of the crackers, cereal boxes, ...

Daniel Kurtzer (Photo: Mordecai Specktor) Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer spoke at Temple Israel on Wednesday evening, warning that time is ...

Arab Israeli author Sayed Kashua is riding a wave of popularity, with a hit TV sitcom and three well-received novels ...

Thinking about same-sex marriage is changing in the United States. For example, there was the front-page headline in Tuesday’s edition ...