'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  ...
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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 ...
Manifestations of hate
Israeli tennis star Andy Ram played a Davis Cup match in a nearly empty stadium in Malmö, Sweden, last Saturday. ...
Seymour Hersh exposes Washington
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Early in a phone chat last week with Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter mentions, regarding ...
Keeping a roof over our heads
Sometimes the editor of a Jewish newspaper goes to church on Sunday. The occasion this week was the celebration of ...
Madoff makes things worse
The court-appointed trustee for the liquidation of the Bernard Madoff firm recently stated that he will not issue IRS 1099 ...
Rutu Modan's new toons draw in the adult reader
In a follow-up to her captivating graphic novel Exit Wounds (10.31.08 AJW), Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan returns with Jamilti and ...
Behind the scenes at the AJW
Perhaps you should cancel your subscription to the AJW. It has come to my attention that some readers can no ...
Jewish Minnesotans dominate ‘Madoff list’
Minneapolis accounting firm appears on list, but had no investments with Madoff By MORDECAI SPECKTOR After the AJW went to ...
Adapting to the downward spiral
The quickening tempo of requests from local Jewish groups for cut-rate advertising deals in the AJW is surely a sign ...
