When Greg Joseph was asked if he wanted to be a part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas annual trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., it was an easy yes from him. The Minnesota Vikings kicker is one of few Jewish players in the NFL, and plays for a team whose owners are descendants of Holocaust survivors. We talk about his participation on the JCRC’s trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., being a part of a Jewish community despite the transient nature of playing in the NFL, and how he went from kicking soccer balls to footballs, on this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast.
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innesota Vikings co-owner Mark Wilf, a longtime advocate for Holocaust education and survivors, has been appointed as the chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s board of governors. Wilf has served in a variety of Jewish communal roles, most recently ending his almost four-year tenure as the chairman of the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time since 2019, more than 150 students, rabbis, teachers, and soldiers boarded a pre-dawn flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to spend the day at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas’…
s part of his sociology professorship, Tim Pippert makes it a priority to teach his Augsburg University students out of the classroom and get them experiential learning opportunities. Knowing about the Jewish Community Relations Council’s annual trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Pippert thought it would be a perfect…
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