Race Car Driver Representing Jewish, Native American Roots
ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. – Thomas Poretsky is six years away from being behind the wheel of a street-legal car and is too young to drive bumper cars at the […]
Do I Buy Tchotchkes For Others On Summer Vacation?
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question. Dear Miriam, I love to buy souvenirs for people when I travel. But my friends are all transient 20-somethings who don’t […]
Biking Around Minnesota To Honor Vic Rosenthal
(Editor’s note: Due to health reasons, Michael Kuhne had to cut his ride short. His effort raised more than $2,300 for JCA). Before he retired in mid-May, Michael Kuhne rode […]
Author’s Journey From Lawyer To Party Clown
According to the American Bar Association, there are more than 1.3 million attorneys in the U.S. as of last year. This writer, as well as the subject of this profile, […]
Magill-Grimm Picked As Beth Jacob’s 3rd Senior Rabbi
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm was in need of a break from the pulpit when she took the job as director of Hineni, Talmud Torah of St. Paul’s adult Jewish education program […]
Who The Folk?! Rabbi Aaron Weininger
When it was announced more than two years ago that Rabbi Aaron Weininger would become Adath Jeshurun’s senior rabbi on June 1, 2023, he was asked if he’d be ready […]
New Kosher Restaurant Opens At MOA
For the last 10 years, Vitali Logman has operated one restaurant – Vitali’s Bistro – in either St. Louis Park or downtown Minneapolis. This week he doubled his footprint when […]
Talmud Torah of St. Paul Closes Its Day School
After several years of unsteady enrollment, Talmud Torah of St. Paul’s board of directors voted Tuesday night to close the Newman School, its kindergarten through 5th-grade day school, effective immediately. […]
How Do I Encourage My Kids To Read In The Summer?
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question, and to read future Miriam’s Advice Well columns, visit miriamsadvicewell.com weekly on Thursday. Dear Miriam, How do I encourage my school-age […]
Is Ye the New Wagner?
I don’t like him for obvious reasons,” my friend, a Jewish trombonist, told me. “But, for you, I will play Wagner because unfortunately I had to learn ‘The Ride’,” she […]