Tag: Mordecai Specktor

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 ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR DFLer Dean Phillips, who is challenging Rep. Erik Paulsen, the Republican incumbent in the race for Minnesota’s ...

As teenagers, Jewish St. Paul native David Fantle and his co-author, Tom Johnson, wrote letters to some of Hollywood's Golden ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On June 30, Rabbi Morris J. Allen will lead Shabbat services at Beth Jacob Congregation for the ...

After Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party won Hungary’s 2014 parliamentary elections, they erected a “Memorial to the Victims of ...