Tag: Mordecai Specktor

Veteran concertmaster and soloist will perform with his ensemble at Beth El Synagogue By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In the latest chapter ...

In the Feb. 1, 2008, edition of the American Jewish World, I wrote about a teleconference with then-Sen. Barack Obama, ...

Lesley Gore, the singer famed for the '60s hit singles “It’s My Party" and “It’s Judy’s Turn to Cry,” is still performing, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rabbi Moshe Weiss, director of Yeshiva High School of Twin Cities, says that his school is “between ...

The American Jewish World occasionally publishes articles about the environmental crisis and what is being done to repair our battered ...

Mark Bloom covers a range of style — blues, funk, jazz, rock, salsa and swing — in his new double-CD ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Everyone can do something to conserve energy resources, according to Alex Cicelsky, a founder of Kibbutz Lotan ...

The Hanuka story we tell the kids is about the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the miracle-of-the-oil. However, ...

Discourse about Israel occasionally elicits heated responses from some American Jews. Although we are thousands of miles from the conflict ...

The online edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that Jews in Postville, Iowa, are showing support for former Agriprocessors ...