On the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus, the spring of 2024 was difficult for Jewish students: antisemitic graffiti, pro-Palestinian encampments, terrorist flags being waved, and a general unease in […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, I started my current job during COVID, and over […]
Katie Kline has a long history in the Jewish arts and culture space, and her arrival at the Minnesota JCC as the department’s senior director comes at a time when […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, A locally-owned small business that I frequent recently put […]
Before there were blogs…Before there were Zoom meetings… Before there were email chains and Facebook messengers and TikTok influencers… There were storytellers. As a child I remember sitting around the […]
A veteran Israeli diplomat, Shahar Azani noticed a strange phenomenon in the wake of Oct. 7: how do you answer the seemingly simple greeting of “how are you?” “Can we […]
As a laywer, Jon Geffen has worked as a public defender and at the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, been an adjunct at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and started his […]
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, How should I deal with my kid (elementary school) […]
Adam Garen’s journey from college debate coach to financial adviser doesn’t seem like an obvious sort of transition. Unless you know Garen, then it makes all the sense in the […]
After several years as the on-site caterer at Knollwood Place Apartments, as well as using the kosher kitchen as the base of its catering operations, Prime Kosher Catering has left […]