.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 […]
For decades, American Jewish teens and their families have faced a fork in the summertime road. On one side is the Academic Summer resume builder – pre-college programs at prestigious […]
Walk through Virginia, Minn., today and you’ll pass right by the remains of what was once the most beautiful synagogue on the Iron Range. Most people have no idea that […]
I never knew my synagogue’s name. I never even knew it had one. I grew up out west…well, North Dakota. Western North Dakota. Minot. We never called our shul by […]
Growing up, I never thought someone like me would go to the mikvah. I grew up on the Jersey shore, an area with a mix of Jews of all levels […]
I am a 76-year-old Jewish woman living in Minneapolis. Never ever did I imagine that I would be scared one day because I am Jewish. I grew up in Haifa, […]
In eighth grade, I was walking to recess, and one of my friends laughingly said to me, “I feel bad for all the Jews who died in the Holocaust, but […]
A veritable Hanukkah miracle, The Hallmark Channel interrupts its December Christmasaplaooza with one new Jewish-focused movie every season. This year’s offering, aimed at the Interfaith crowd, is Oy To The World, […]
Ballet has always been a part of Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies’s life. “I always loved the way that ballet has been able to tell stories,” she said. When she was younger, her […]
The sound of the shofar makes me emotional, but I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it’s the hearing the sound of something our people have done for thousands of years. […]