Editorial: Do not be an onlooker
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is remembered by many for the stirring final address by Martin ...
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U of M pays $250,000 settlement to Raz Segal
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor In June 2024, the University of Minnesota offered but then rescinded the Center for ...
Save the loons
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Anyone who’s spent a full summer at a lake cabin knows the type: the guy who’s lived ...
Evan Maurer invigorated Jewish arts in Minnesota
By JUDITH BRIN INGBER Evan Maclyn Maurer died Nov. 2, 2023, in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79. Maurer was ...
Music’s power to heal
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When the AJW contacted pianist Emmet Cohen on a Friday afternoon in late April, he was visiting ...
Jersey City’s Jewish mayor didn’t wait to call the kosher store shooting an anti-Semitic attack. Here’s why.
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe ...
Meet Iris, the Jewish Icelandic singer with the voice of an actual angel
By JORDANA LIPSITZ (JTA) — I met Iris before her first solo show in the green room at the Bootleg ...
Eli Valley: Cartoons for the crisis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a September 2017 appearance on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, cartoonist Eli Valley said, regarding the aim ...
Grateful Dead, from right to left
Ami Yares, a musician and teacher, will be featured, with Sagol 59, in a Dec. 12 concert at the St. ...
Actor, farmer, poet, rabbi
Rabbi Avi Strausberg, of Temple of Aaron, focuses on adult education and finding creative ways to engage with the Jewish ...
