Remote Jewish Learning, 1980s Style
Back-to-school stories are beginning to kick-in throughout the news and social media. Few and far between, however, are the stories focused on five ways to decorate your locker, or what […]
An Inspiring Ninth of Av
Jewish sleepaway camp provided many of today’s adults with their first Tisha B’Av experience. There they sat on the floor of the Beit Am (communal building), watched interpretive dance, listened to the camp […]
A Call to Action: Join TCJMS Alumni in Supporting Racial Justice
In the weeks after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, a group of Twin Cities Jewish Middle School alumni came together to talk about how we could take action […]
Wabasha County GOP Links Nazis, Mask Ordinance; Board Member Resigns
After claiming Monday night that the Wabasha County Republican Party Facebook page had been hacked, Minnesota Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan tweeted that an anti-Semitic post that compared the Holocaust […]
JCRC Condemns Ongoing Comparisons to Nazis, and the Misuse of the Holocaust, to Measures being Taken to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19
Update — July 27: “The post shared by the Republican Party of Wabasha County MN is appalling. As we stated over the weekend, to compare public health measures to Nazi […]
Who The Folk?! Meyer Weinshel
Is Yiddish a dying language, or is it making a comeback? This week we talk to Meyer Weinshel, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota who is teaching Yiddish […]
St. Paul Jewish Federation Elects Rick Linsk Board President
The St. Paul Jewish Federation elected Rick Linsk president of the board of directors at its 85th Annual Meeting on Monday, July 20. Linsk is a long-time Federation volunteer and […]
Sharing The Mic To Amplify Voices
This year has been an interesting one, and Jasmine Brett Stringer means that in the most Minnesotan of ways. But out of the despair from COVID-enforced quarantine to the killing […]
St. Cloud Councilman Uses Holocaust Reference In Mask Debate
St. Cloud City Councilmember Paul Brandmire said that COVID-positive individuals should be marked with a yellow star on their lapel at that city’s meeting on Monday. “If we can mandate […]
Who The Folk?! Aly Jones
What brings someone from a small Jewish community in the Southwest to the Upper Midwest? This week we hear from Aly Jones, the new coordinator of JFCS NextGen. We talk […]