Tag: Mordecai Specktor

A new collaboration between Beth Jacob Congregation and Temple of Aaron Synagogue will strengthen the St. Paul Jewish community By ...

Sandy Pappas is the first Jewish woman to serve as president of the Minnesota Senate By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Sen. Sandra ...

In early January, state Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, sent me an e-mail, complementing my editorial about the horrific mass ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR For more than a century, juries in criminal cases in the United States have been instructed that ...

Some AJW readers might have seen Israeli jazz guitarist Roni Ben-Hur play at the St. Paul JCC in February 2011. ...

“Jewish law prefers that Jews pray communally rather than privately,” writes Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Literacy. “For one thing, ...

More than 5.6 million Israelis are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections on Jan. 22, aspects of which might ...

Omer Avital has established himself as a top bass player on the jazz scene, but also is bringing traditional Jewish ...

At the end of 2012, many news media outlets published or aired their year-in-review stories. This particular journalistic convention also ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When we last talked, in December 2010, Cathy Ladman was living in south Minneapolis. She had some ...