'Ida's Story' portrays a child's survival in Ukraine, and makes larger point about resisting genocide
By CRYSTAL ERICKSON TC Daily Planet A documentary 10 years in the making, Ida's Story had its big-screen debut at North Minneapolis's ...
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Zev Aelony, Civil Rights Movement activist, dies
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Nearly 50 years before the United States elected a Black president, Zev Aelony dedicated himself to the ...
Anti-torture group will protest Condoleezza Rice appearance at Beth El Synagogue on Sunday
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is shown with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in August 2008. (Photo: Omar Rashidi/PPO/BPH ...
Reunion long overdue for two ‘Ritchie Boys’
Dr. Guy Stern and St. Paul’s Walter Schwarz will be reunited after 65 years for local screening of The Ritchie ...
Sukkot and global warming
You meet the most interesting people in the Jewish World offices. Two recent visitors were from the Arava Institute for ...
Son pays for mother’s militant politics
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Dial Press, 304 pages, $22. Reviewed ...
Sam Kaplan named U.S. ambassador to Morocco
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Samuel L. Kaplan, a prominent Minneapolis lawyer and influential DFL Party activist, has been nominated as U.S. ...
Seymour Hersh exposes Washington
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Early in a phone chat last week with Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter mentions, regarding ...
