Is Jewish Journalism On The Brink?
“How do we as journalists create as insightful a forum as we can?” Jonathan Tobin, the award-winning editor-in-chief of Jewish News Syndicate, posed that question at the American Jewish Press […]
Old & New Jewish Singles Groups Hope To Take Off
The Jewish Singles Collaborative (JSC) is struggling. There’s plenty of interest with about 150 organizations and 650 people on the email list, but the sole volunteer — Cindy Dubansky — […]
Rabbis Respond: June 2019
Each month, we’re asking rabbis across the Twin Cities a different question (via the Minnesota Rabbinic Association). Here’s the question for June; the answers are as written by the rabbi: […]
The Final Camp Drop-off
Well, this is it. The final year. Her final year at Herzl as a camper and my heart is breaking for her. Today we spent the entire day together. Making […]
Jon Savitt Combining His Comedy, Musical Passions
Jon Savitt is a comedian and a writer who has been published on some websites that many journalists would love to. He also has been playing piano for most of […]
Who The Folk?! Noam Sienna
Why, in the midst of working on your doctorate dissertation, would you go and write a book that has nothing to do with your dissertation topic? That’s a question Noam […]
Kids Relate to “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical” at the Ordway
It’s sometimes tough being a kid trying to find one’s place in the universe. Stressors can come from many aspects of one’s life, affecting friendships, schoolwork, and relationships with their […]
Jew Review: ‘A Rainbow Thread’
When I was in college in the late 1980s, I devoured the work of Jewish feminists like Ellen Umansky and Judith Plaskow. They unearthed for me the previously hidden voices […]
Cooking with Jewish Wisdom
.חֲנֹ֣ךְ לַ֖נַּעַר עַל־פִּ֣י דַרְכּ֑וֹ גַּ֥ם כִּֽי־יַ֜זְקִ֗ין לֹֽא־יָס֥וּר מִמֶּֽנָּה” Train a child according to his way; even when he grows old, he will not turn away from it.” As a mom […]
Cheers Minneapolis Faces Eviction
Cheers Minneapolis, the LGBTQ bar that was set to open on June 21, now looks unlikely to open at all. According to online records, the 1933 Lyndale LLC, the owners […]