Zalman Mlotek entertains at St. Paul JCC with musical lecture on Yiddish theater
LONG AGO ON SECOND AVENUE — Zalmen Mlotek, artistic director of The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, captivated the audience last Saturday ...
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'A Serious Man' arrives in Twin Cities stores
Just in time for Purim, the Coen brothers’ whimsical look at Midwest Jewish life in the 1960s is available for ...
Israeli ambassador shouted down at California university talk; police arrest 12 protesters
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke, or tried to speak, to a raucous crowd on Wednesday night at the University of ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann: If America does not support Israel, 'that is the end of the United States'
The Minnesota Independent reports today that Rep. Michele Bachmann, addressing a Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) event in Los Angeles last week, "offered ...
Happy about the end of the world
   Millions of evangelical Christians believe that a global cataclysm is imminent, and that Israel will be the ...
Heeere’s Mohammed!
Bob Alper, a rabbi turned comedian, mines a new vein of shtick performing with Arab and Muslim comics By MORDECAI ...
Returning to Earth after watching Avatar
I was somewhat surprised to read recently about a new psychological malady, which goes under the rough title of “post-Avatar ...
Rabbi Jesus?
An Orthodox rabbi in Israel came under verbal attack after making some laudatory comments about Jesus By MOSHE GIT Recently, Rabbi ...
Howard Zinn, popular Jewish American historian, dies at 87
Howard Zinn, an outspoken historian who influenced generations of leftist political activists, died of a heart attack Wednesday in California. ...
Ambassador Samuel Kaplan
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Sam Kaplan, a prominent Minneapolis lawyer and leading DFL activist, enjoys reading the American Jewish World. However, ...
