Jews and the Civil Rights Movement in Minnesota
By LAURA WEBER Published in 1949, Jews in Transition, by Rabbi Albert I. Gordon, was the first book-length look at ...
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From Minnesota, Bert Goldstein launched a global theater career
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Minnesota’s rich theater scene is a magnet for Jewish actors from around the country: The list shows ...
Minnesota Jews impacted by COVID-19
By ADRIAN GLASS-MOORE / Assistant Editor Minnesota rabbis are urging people to stay home for Passover seder this year in ...
Minnesota: No Hate. No Fear
AJW Staff Report A gathering Tuesday night, Jan. 7, at Temple Israel in Minneapolis featured music and speeches by Jewish ...
Mental health conference offers guidance for recovery
Nearly 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2018, evidence of a devastating addiction crisis and a related crisis in ...
Jana Shortal: ‘It felt like home to me’
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor There is no one path toward conversion in Judaism. It is a religion that ...
Al Franken learned about justice from his childhood rabbi
Minnesota's junior senator credits Temple Israel's Rabbi Max Shapiro for a lifelong love of justice By CURT SCHLEIER (JTA) — ...
A visionary business leader
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The sanctuary of Temple Israel in Minneapolis was packed for the March 24 funeral of John B. ...
Rabbi Tamar Grimm returns home
Grimm, the assistant rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation, is expanding Jewish education and interfaith programming By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / ...
Service of Comfort is Oct. 25
The Minnesota Rabbinical Association (MRA) and Minnesota Cantor’s Association (MCA) will offer a Service of Comfort 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. ...
