Amid Soot & Smoke Damage, There’s Hope
Last week on Sunday evening, a fire was set at the Masjid Omar Islamic Center. Then the next day, Mercy Islamic Center was similarly set ablaze, miraculously no one was […]
Sophie Stillman’s Journey From Minneapolis To The IDF
TEL AVIV – Sophie Stillman was in Jerusalem in February of 2016, not far from where Hadar Cohen, a teenage Israeli border police officer, was killed in a terrorist attack. […]
Herzl, Olami Named Among Top Summer Camps In America
Herzl Camp and Camp Olami were two of the camps named among the 500 best in America by Newsweek magazine on Wednesday, according to the results of their nationwide study. […]
‘Listen To Your Mother’ Celebrating a Decade Of Storytelling In TC
Ten years ago, four women applied for the opportunity to start up a stage show in the Twin Cities that would focus on empowering women through storytelling – but because […]
Why Are People Commenting On My Child’s Bat Mitzvah
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, My daughter is an only child, […]
Reflections From a Balcony in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV – I’m sitting on the balcony of my hotel room in Tel Aviv, early morning traffic and a soft Mediterranean breeze providing background music. A few surfers have […]
Author Daniel Wolff In Minneapolis To Discuss New Book
It all started in 1978, when author Daniel Wolff was tasked with clearing out a house in Minneapolis and found a diary belonging to a middle-aged woman who was married […]
Who The Folk?! Ambassador Thomas Nides
TEL AVIV – The great part of being from Minneapolis and having the American ambassador to Israel being a Minnesotan? If the right people ask, you get a few minutes […]
Rehovot Welcomes Minneapolis To Celebrate A Strong Partnership
REHOVOT, Israel – In 2003, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation Board decided to re-enter Partnership2Gether, a program that partners Jewish communities around the world with cities or regions in Israel to […]
Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Eili, Eili’ by Noah Diamondstein
This week we observed Yom HaShoah and commemorated the unimaginable loss of life during the Holocaust. The Hannah Senesh poem “Eili, Eili” is a powerful reminder that life goes on, […]