One of Minnesota’s most accomplished women, Geri Joseph, dies at 100
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor “Growing up I knew that she was not at all like my friends’ grandmothers,” ...
Tag: Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale was a liberal icon who championed Israel
By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Walter Mondale, the former vice president who represented a time in American history when being ...
Yossi Beilin to speak at J Street town hall
Yossi Beilin (center) appeared at a Macalester College forum on Mideast peacemaking, in Sept. 2007. Joining Beilin were Palestinian Authority ...
Norm Coleman considers challenge to Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele
Catching up on politics with a Minnesota Jewish angle, former Sen. Norm Coleman is mulling a challenge to Michael Steele ...
Now the work begins for Sen. Al Franken
Minnesota’s junior senator will have a full plate, sitting on committees dealing with health care and the confirmation of a ...
Seymour Hersh kicks off the conversation
After going to press last week (finishing up at an exceptionally early time on Tuesday), I attended the “Great Conversations ...
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 ...
Al Franken for U.S. Senate
Minnesota’s “Jewish seat” in the U.S. Senate is up for grabs again this year. Although Jews account for less than ...
