New Cookbook Celebrates Jewish Cuisine Of Italy
With the High Holidays, Sukkot, Shemini Azeret and Simchat Torah upon us, many Jewish people can’t help but think about food, from what they’ll eat (apples and honey, challah) to […]
Is It Too Late To Make Sukkot Meaningful?
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, Sukkot is almost over, and I have thus far […]
Camp TEKO Shows Off Renovations At Community Open House
Camp TEKO sits on the same 19 acres of land on Lake Minnetonka as it did when the Temple Israel Men’s Club bought the property in 1965, when it was […]
Who The Folk?! Serena Brook
Growing up in Minneapolis at Shir Tikvah Congregation, Serena Brook saw a diverse Jewish community. As she takes the stage for the first time at Theater Latte Da, she gets […]
Locally-Trained Hearing-Assist Dog Helps Orthodox Rabbi In Everyday Life
When Dov Ber Smith, a Milwaukee-based Orthodox Rabbi, met Cinco, a three-year-old black Labrador Retriever, Smith said their relationship developed extremely quickly. Now, Cinco, a hearing-assist dog, helps Smith with […]
Holocaust-Denying School Board Candidate Shows Up At TC Synagogues
A Holocaust denier running for the Roseville School Board this fall visited two Twin Cities synagogues during the High Holidays in pursuit of his antisemitic conspiracy theories. In two separate […]
New Book Brings Divine Wisdom To The Everyday
I’ve always been a word person. Actually, some of my earliest memories revolve around words. Walking to the library with my family on Shabbat, after synagogue, and reading all afternoon; […]
Harry Kay Leadership Institute Announces Newest Cohort
The Harry Kay Leadership Institute has selected 30 leaders to make up Cohort XI of its prestigious leadership development program for Jewish leaders in the Twin Cities. The Minneapolis Jewish […]
A Reconstructionist Pilgrimage Towards Racial Justice
In March, I had the good fortune to travel to the Deep South with 200 other Reconstructionist Jews from congregations around the country on a sobering yet uplifting journey that […]
Holocaust Survivor Dora Zaidenweber Passes Away At 99
Dora Zaidenweber moved to Minneapolis in 1950, just a few short years after being liberated after surviving the Radom forced labor camp, Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, and for 74 years after, […]