TC Queer Jews Piloting Mussar Learning Group
J-Pride, the Jewish Twin Cities LGBTQ+ organization, is piloting a queer-only va’ad, or study group, to engage with Jewish Mussar teachings in partnership with Twin Cities Mussar and Temple Israel. […]
Beth Kieffer Leonard, MN Accounting Maven, Honored By The Jewish Agency
Beth Kieffer Leonard, managing partner of Lurie, LLP, an accounting and consulting firm in Minneapolis, has spent four years as the chairperson of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s budget and […]
St. Paul Antisemitic Flyers Blame Jews For Gun Safety
An antisemitic flyer that claimed “every single aspect of gun control is Jewish” was allegedly distributed to homes near the Talmud Torah of St. Paul on Monday. The flyer included […]
Ukraine Chabad Emissaries Tell Of Life And War In Kharkiv
Before Feb. 24, Sora Levinson and her husband, Rabbi Chaim, weren’t sure if Russia was going to invade Ukraine. In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where they served as […]
Antisemitic Covenants Found In Ramsey Tell Partial, But Complex, Story
In 1947, the cluster of houses on Ridgewood Lane North and Ridgewood Lane South in Roseville had an identical legal clause inserted into each of the property deeds. “No part […]
Vikings Owner To Be Next Chair Of Jewish Agency For Israel
Minnesota 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 […]
Klezmer, Ukrainian Party Music Takes Center Stage At The Cedar
Sarah Larsson is inviting just about everyone to come to her wedding. Well, ok, maybe not the wedding ceremony itself. But the Jewish community is definitely invited to the after-party: […]
GOP Apologizes As Simon Responds To Soros Video: “We Don’t Need More Incitement”
Steve Simon, Minnesota’s Jewish secretary of state, found himself in an unusual position this past weekend: photoshopped as a Stephen King character and dangling from Jewish billionaire George Soros’ puppet […]
Nursing Homes Will Fail Without State Help, Sholom Says
During January’s omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, leadership at Sholom, Minnesota’s Jewish long-term care organization, started panicking. At one point, 60 employees were sick with COVID and unable to […]
GOP Candidate, Buffalo Shooter, Profess Jewish Conspiracy
Kim Crockett, the Minnesota GOP-endorsed candidate for secretary of state, which oversees elections, thinks Minnesota has less election integrity than every part of the U.S. except for California. And at […]