TC Jewfolk Launches Housing/Bulletin Board for Twin Cities Jewish Community
Looking for a roommate to host crazy awesome Shabbat dinner potlucks with you in your fabulous apartment in Uptown? Consider it a Twin Cities’ “kosher craigslist”.
Category: What’s Nu?
Temple of Aaron Announces Its Hip New Rabbi, Jeremy Fine, to Start in July
Twin Cities, meet the first of the new pack of cool rabbis to come to town, Rabbi Jeremy Fine, at Temple of Aaron.
May 18, 2012 | 5 comments | View Post
Eurovision Song Contest: In Tune with What’s Right
The Eurovision Song Contest is all about music, cultural exchange and joyful competition. Its inclusiveness stands as in sharp contrast to the “Boycott Israel” crowd.
May 10, 2012 | 2 comments | View Post
What Must Be Said… The Jewish “Audacity of Hope”
The word “Chutzpah” has crept into the English vernacular but describes a distinctly Jewish characteristic…It is this Chutzpah – the “audacity of hope”- that is the secret to Jewish immortality.
My “Coming Out” Story … As a J Street Supporter
Minnesotan Mara Baron “comes out” as a J Street supporter after an especially inspiring policy conference in Washington, DC. And invites you to join her.
Apr 27, 2012 | 4 comments | View Post
Join JCA to Defeat the “Photo ID” Constitutional Amendment
“Photo ID” would make it hard or impossible for over 700,000 Minnesotans to vote. It affects all of us. Join Jewish Community Action to take a stand on this issue before the vote in November.
Apr 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
The Unseen Shield
The Shin Bet (motto = “the unseen shield”) operates with transparency, providing personnel with legal propriety as they fulfill the responsibility of keeping Israelis out of harm’s way. An look at the organization and its history.
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Toure: Fusion Music Magic Coming to Minneapolis
TCJ interviews Israeli superstar Idan Raichel in advance of his upcoming 4/16 Dakota Jazz Club concert with Mali’s virtuoso guitarist, Vieux Farka Toure.
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Peter Beinart, I Quit.
Dr. Yoel Finkelman was supposed to write about the ultra-Orthodox community for Beinart’s Daily Beast blog “Open Zion” about “Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish future.” He quit after several weeks. Read why.
Apr 06, 2012 | 2 comments | View Post
Israeli Teen Ambassadors Visit the Land of the “Not-So-Frozen” Chosen
As teen representatives for the State of Israel they came to the Twin Cities to meet, to teach, to connect. Read on for what they did – and learned – in their first visit to the US.
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Martyr in Waiting: End of a Hunger Strike
If Palestinian operative Adnan was a significant figure in the West Bank and was detained because of his danger to Israelis, was it ethical for Israel to capitulate to his demands and agree to release him?
Mar 28, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Making History: the Future of Pro-Israel at J Street
“We are the future of pro-Israel,” says Minnesotan Evan Stern as he heads off to J Street’s national policy conference in Washington, DC this weekend.
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Dispatch from France: Terror in Toulouse
Minneapolis Jewish Federation CEO Steve Silberfarb is in Paris, France. His thoughts on the murder Monday of three children and a teacher at the Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Mar 21, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Finding Optimism and Engagement at J Street’s Policy Conference
As Macalester Student Rebecca Hornstein listened to Israeli, American, and Palestinian activists taking risks for peace at J Street, she asked herself, “What’s my excuse for not taking action?”
Mar 15, 2012 | 16 comments | View Post
When it’s “Snowing” Rockets
When heavy snow forces schools to close, Minnesota kids react with delight. Schools have been closed in southern Israel but it’s not snow that’s been falling but rockets. Details, and what you can do to help.
Mar 14, 2012 | 4 comments | View Post
