After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel – when the Gaza-based terrorist organization massacred 1,200 people, mostly Jewish civilians, in southern Israel and took 240 hostages – Abby Cooper […]
Several years ago, Michael Getty, a St. Paul-based writer and poet who taught himself Hebrew, was reading The Book of Jonah when he noticed just how strange it is. The […]
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My wife and I recently returned from a 10-day trip to volunteer in Israel. We went ourselves to show solidarity with our friends in Israel, and to do some of […]
A legacy, a lifeline, and a lot more work to be done. Looking at the past 25 years and the next 25 years to come, these are the words that […]
WASHINGTON – In the late 1970s, Cindy Amberger, like many other American Jewish teenagers, spent time on an Israeli kibbutz with a host family to connect with the country and […]
Members of the Twin Cities Jewish and Ukrainian communities held a press conference on Thursday morning to jointly condemn Russia and Hamas as agents of terror, and call for more […]
A deluge of anti-Israel posts on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok shared by peers. Tone-deaf comments from students and teachers. Cases of direct harassment, online and in-person, from […]
Isadore Blumenfeld, better known as Kid Cann (a nickname he hated), was the “closest thing Minnesota had to a godfather.” The Romanian-Jewish immigrant rose to infamy in Minneapolis during Prohibition, […]
Sophie Stillman wasn’t supposed to be on a kibbutz near the Gaza border on Saturday, Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked. Normally, Stillman, a former Lone Soldier in the Israel Defence […]