The Future of Twin Cities' Jewry: Leora's Take
Let’s get creative. Let’s be more welcoming. What else? How can our Jewish community meet your needs, Twin Cities young parents, families, students, and professionals?
Accountability
The past few weeks have been very trying for me as an individual. Not only have I been trying to start a new life in Israel on my 10 month […]
Find a #SickSukkah, Win Home Depot Cash
It’s Sukkot time! The Jewish holiday of building temporary dwellings in our backyards or porches or apartment balconies so we can remember the time when we were traveling the desert […]
Win Two Tickets To Judy Gold At Acme
Jewish comedienne is coming to Minneapolis for a three-night headlining gig at Acme Comedy Club. We have two tickets to this Thursday night’s performance.
Fasting From Affliction: Reflecting on My Eating Disorder on Yom Kippur
I’m not quite sure when or why it began, but it did.
Where Was Sandy? The Koufax Midrash
n 1965 a story formulated that for many Jews is on par with biblical magic. The story states that on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar (to most Jews anyway), the greatest baseball pitcher of all-time, Sandy Koufax, put religion before baseball and sat out the first game of the World Series. Most Jews, baseball fans or people with access to the Internet have heard this story. Jewish religious school teachers always teach this story in their classrooms this time of year. But this article is not about whether Koufax pitched or did not pitch, we have an answer to that; the question is if Koufax was not on the mound on October 6th 1965, then where was he?
Ruby's Day of A: A Fiction Story
The thing about a synagogue is that Christianity may be old… but Judaism is ancient.
Learning from Deus and Why You Shouldn't Judge Yourself On Yom Kippur
I’m not gonna catch you up on the past few weeks. Just know this. Whenever I previously listened to Wiz Khalifa’s “Young, Wild and Free” I felt like I was […]
Beth El and Disney together for one day
Countless studies have shown that engaging and fun childhood education experiences yield enriched and productive teenage and adult lives. That’s one reason why preschools tend to make every effort to prevent turning children away because of financial difficulty. In light of this, the leadership of Beth El Synagogue and the Aleph Preschool has found a creative and fun new initiative to augment the upwards of $50,000 they already allocate yearly in financial aid.
Cancer-Sucks Awareness Month: 28 Months Post-Transplant
Two years ago I welcomed Elul with a sense of deep foreboding. After living with my own mortality, wrestling with continuing to make a life for myself in the midst of life-threatening illness, shifting relationships, months during which I could not eat and was kept alive with intravenous nutrition, at the High Holidays I could not reflect on my life or consider my mortality. I was still having nightmares that I was in a room full of people talking, laughing, and eating, only I couldn’t. I was pretty sure I would never fast again.