His answer, readable and engaging, is yes, absolutely it is — but hardly totally. “The purpose of Israel was to save the Jewish people,” says Gordis, distinguished fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalem College ...
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER There’s no straight line between the Venice and Warsaw ghettos, says historian Alexander Lee in The ...
Jewish World readers might not be familiar with the ways of the Amish. Specifically, the practice of social shunning, also ...
Utterly preposterous, profanity laden and very clever, The Golem of Brooklyn is an unpredictable, crazy-quilt twist on the old story of a man-made rescuer of Jews whose successes become a burden. But ...
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Tuesdays with Morrie is the true story of Detroit Free Press’ Jewish sportswriter Mitch Albom and his ...
It’s time to get out those markers! Enter the 35th Annual AJW Hanuka Cover Contest! We’re looking for colorful drawings ...
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor With descendants of Kinder-transport children in attendance, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota ...
In the early morning on Tuesday, April 23, Students for Justice in Palestine, UMN Students for a Democratic Society, UMN Students for Climate Justice and others set up an encampment to protest “the ...
On the Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, people are gay — they are happy. They are comfortable in their sexuality. “People are people,” as the character Sally Bowles (Mary ...
Three weeks short of 17, orphaned Peter Fleischmann escaped Nazi Germany with the famed Kindertransport only to be confined by barbed wire in Britain. Fleischmann, an aspiring artist, was one of ...
Which Jewish musician has roots on the Iron Range and has a new recording coming out soon? If you guessed the obvious, you’re wrong! The answer is Dan Israel. Dan Israel was born in St. Louis Park, ...
Born into a Gur Hasidic family, she had a son and a daughter with Yossi, who was devoted to his religious studies and, Sara says, oblivious of Sara’s needs. One of those needs, which Sara concealed ...
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