Who The Folk?! Haviv Rettig Gur
Normally we focus on local Jewish community members to feature on the Who The Folk?! Podcast, the opportunity to about what’s happening in Israel with Haviv Rettig Gur was an […]
Corrective Sticker, Stronger Oversight Planned After SLP Yearbook Gaffe
St. Louis Park School District Interim Superintendent Katherine Maguire said that a corrective sticker would be issued to fix an error in the SLP High School yearbook that angered district […]
SLP High School Apologizes For ‘Unacceptable’ Yearbook Entry
St. Louis Park High School officials and student yearbook staff apologized for an entry in Echowan, the school’s yearbook, for a news entry that called out Israel for declaring war […]
Who The Folk?! Mia Nosanow
The perfect book hadn’t been written to help Mia Nosanow as a mental health professional at Macalester College in St. Paul. So, she wrote it herself, and The College Student’s […]
Jewish State Rep. Heather Edelson Wins Seat On Hennepin County Board
When Heather Edelson first got elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2018, it was never her intention to be in that elected body forever – which is why […]
Do I Let My Son Wear a Kippah To a Cousin’s Christening?
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My Jewish family is attending the Christening of our […]
Jewish Comedian Cathy Ladman Brings Stand-Up To The Parkway Theater
For more than 40 years, Cathy Ladman has been on stage as a touring comedian. And there is no place that she’d rather be. “I think that I just do […]
Who The Folk?! Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller had worked his way up to prominent positions at two different baseball organizations when he got a call from a headhunter: What do you think about working in […]
UMN Regents Hear From Students On Divestment, Campus Climate
At a highly charged University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting Friday morning, student leaders from Minnesota Hillel and the Divest UMN Coalition took turns speaking to the regents: one […]
How Should Non-Jews Grieve For Jewish Friends?
Dear Miriam, Do Jewish folks do sympathy cards? Do non-Jewish friends visit while a family is sitting shiva? What’s the etiquette a) around death in general, and b) coming from […]