Song has always played a central role in Jewish life, both secular and religious. From niggunim (wordless melodies) to piyutim (liturgical poems set to music), Yiddish labor movement songs to Ladino folksongs, Jewish singing traditions carry the […]
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question. Dear Miriam, When I was a kid, I had a terrible time at sleepaway camp. I cried every day and counted […]
Beth Kieffer Leonard had called her longtime friend Isaac Herzog when she was watching him be appointed Israel’s president, and expected to leave a message of congratulations. She was in […]
The most intense day of my life just happened. Our group toured Auschwitz-Birkenau today and I’ve been dreading stepping foot on the exact platform my grandfather arrived at almost 80 […]
When Margie Zats wrote her latest book in 2021, she did so as a response to the combination of COVID isolation, Minnesota winters, and most tragically, the death of her […]
The Minnesota Rabbinical Association is the largest rabbinic organization representing the Jewish community throughout Minnesota. As a diverse group with different theological and political understandings, we are able to find […]
Bob Nemer was a college student at the University of Minnesota when he and a few friends dragged some of their artwork to the corner of Lake and Hennepin in […]
When the rabbi agreed to come for my mother’s pizza party memorial, my sister, father, and I were surprised. Mom’s untraditional wish to be cremated and surrounded by pizza, something […]
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question. Dear Miriam, I’m a college professor, and a few times a year, I get invited to weddings of former (and sometimes […]
NEW ORLEANS — TC Jewfolk won three awards for journalism at the 2023 American Jewish Press Association annual meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday night, competing in a digital-only category […]
