Changes at the Jewish World
The American Jewish World is being buffeted by the global economic crisis. The journal of Minnesota’s Jewish community must adjust ...
Tag: Mordecai Specktor
Ben’s back
World renowned jazz pianist and raconteur Ben Sidran will play the Dakota Jazz Club for two nights at the end ...
Respectful disagreement
The American Jewish World is dealing with a triple whammy in 2009. In addition to the ongoing double whammy of ...
Who are the pharaohs?
At our Passover seders next Wednesday, we will tell the story of the Israelites’ escape from bondage in Egypt and ...
Cimbalom virtuoso plays some Jewish tunes
 Kálmán Balogh Fans of Gypsy (Rom) and Jewish music should check out the Kálmán Balogh Gypsy Cimbalom Band 7:30 p.m. ...
Seders focus on freedom, hunger, the Earth
Participating in a candle lighting ceremony at Jewish Community Action’s 7th Annual Immigrant Rights Freedom Seder on Sunday at Mount ...
Sharing our freedom story
There was a remarkable moment on Sunday afternoon, during the Immigrant Rights Freedom Seder at Mount Zion Temple. The Jewish ...
Seymour Hersh kicks off the conversation
After going to press last week (finishing up at an exceptionally early time on Tuesday), I attended the “Great Conversations ...
'Stop the Re-Route': Last stand for Mother Earth
New documentary chronicles the urban effort to save trees and stop a Minneapolis highway project  By MORDECAI SPECKTOR  ...
Madoff pleads guilty, goes directly to jail
Bernard Madoff, engineer of a massive Ponzi scheme that wiped out thousands of investors and damaged Jewish communal agencies, pleaded ...
