Tag: Mordecai Specktor

Our family Kabbalat Shabbat tradition includes candle lighting, of course, and then wishing everyone “Shabbat Shalom.” I add, “May the ...

AJW Staff Report The much-anticipated Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) is underway, running through April 20, with more ...

I had last talked with Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, in the fall of 2010, for a Jewish World story. It was ...

From the Strange but True Department: Harpo Marx, the silent member of the Marx Brothers, and surrealist painter Salvador Dali ...

AJW Staff Report As the Jewish World went to press this week, House Democratic leaders were planning to vote on ...

By MAX SPARBER / Community News Editor The latest in a long series of discussions regarding the honoring of people ...

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor In the wake of the Oct. 27 mass shooting in Pittsburgh, which killed 11 ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a ...

High Holidays shul-goers will hear the powerful Unetane Tokef (“We shall ascribe holiness to this day”), a liturgical poem chanted ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced her run for governor and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison filed ...