Comedian Joel Chasnoff knows about the problem of 'Flying While Jewish'
You probably heard about the tefillin scare yesterday on a US Airways flight from New York to Louisville. Seventeen-year-old Caleb ...
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Miep Gies, who sheltered Anne Frank and saved her diary, dies at 100
Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, receiving the Wiesenthal Center's Righteous Among the Nations Award in ...
Garrison Keillor: Non-Christians, 'buzz off' (Update at end)
Garrison Keillor, host of the popular A Prairie Home Companion weekly radio variety show, displays his cranky side in a ...
Shootings at Ft. Hood and Seattle
President Obama told some 15,000 people gathered for a memorial service at the Ft. Hood army base on Tuesday that ...
Jewish consciousness in 5770
It has been an eventful year, 5769 (which is reviewed in this edition, beginning on Page 1B). For many in ...
Seymour Hersh discussed Cheney's secret assassination program at U of M forum
Back in March of this year at a University of Minnesota forum, renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh roiled the staid ...
Al Franken: Shpritzer or politician or a hybrid?
Everybody's weighing in on Minnesota's new junior senator. Writing in The New York Times, Victor Navasky, former publisher of The ...
Tony Kushner talks about art, politics and Minneapolis
As the Guthrie Theater's unprecedented celebration of his work comes to a close, the playwright talks with the American Jewish ...
When journalism became infotainment
As part of the Guthrie Theater’s “Global Voices” series on Monday night, Frank Rich, columnist and former theater critic for the ...
Keith Ellison surveys Gaza in war's aftermath
Keith Ellison, who represents Minnesota’s Fifth District in Congress, visited Gaza on Thursday, and surveyed the destruction from Israel’s recent ...
