In the late 1970s, Jim Wardlow, working in Michigan, saw an advertisement for available positions at the Hodroff funeral home in the Twin Cities. Though not Jewish, Wardlow had worked […]
In early June, professor Bruno Chaouat resigned from the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies to protest an attempted hire for the center’s […]
Naomi Petel Adler had always wanted to live on a kibbutz, the Israeli socialist-inspired towns known for their tight-knit communities. “Kids get to run around until it’s dark, and then […]
Joni Sussman has an encyclopedic memory of the books she worked on for 20 years as the head of Kar-Ben Publishing, the oldest publisher of exclusively Jewish children’s books in […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column Dear Miriam, Political conversations have had a remarkable tone shift in […]
A few years ago, Laura Zelle was seeking out Holocaust education trips to Europe for Minnesota K-12 teachers when she realized that there weren’t many options. “This wasn’t being offered […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column Dear Miriam, I read a lot of advice columns (including this […]
Editor’s note: This story includes disturbing details of violence and sexual assault. Gayle Kaplan felt she needed to watch “Screams Before Silence,” the Sheryl Sandberg-fronted documentary about Hamas’ sexual violence […]
MIANOWEK, Poland – Lucien was a young boy in 1941 when the Nazis murdered 5,000 Jews near his home in the Polish countryside and left their bodies in a Soviet […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column Dear Miriam, At kiddush this past Shabbat, someone I know by […]