Having recently written about the new Mel Brooks documentary, it’s fitting to now be reviewing a book on Sid Caesar. As Brooks has repeatedly noted throughout his lengthy career, “No […]
On Jan. 7, I returned home to Minneapolis from an eight-day trip to Israel, eager to share my takeaways about what it means to be a liberal Zionist in the […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, This winter has been the worst! Every other week, […]
This week, the Hebrew month of Adar arrived…just when we needed it. Adar is associated with joy, and we can use an extra measure right now. But where might we […]
Diaspora Jews have for centuries added a special prayer to our prayerbooks for the monarchs, leaders, and institutions that provided us safe haven as an oft-persecuted minority. When those institutions […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, In casual conversation, a casual friend mentioned a major […]
This article was originally published in ‘Ramsey County History’ in the Fall of 2021 and, given the recent increase in mutual aid efforts in the Twin Cities, it is reprinted […]
As a Jew-by-choice who identifies strongly with my Finnish heritage, it often feels like my identities are two non-overlapping circles: the Jewish part and the Finnish-American part. Although there is […]
At nearly 100, Mel Brooks has been such a lasting fixture in comedy, television, theatre and movies, that fans could hardly be blamed for not knowing that at one point, […]
.וַאֲהַבְתֶּם אֶת־הַגֵּר כִּי־גֵרִים הֱיִיתֶם בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:19) As rabbis and cantors across Minnesota, we write out of […]