Beth El Rounds Out Clergy Team With Two Hires
After a long search, Beth El Synagogue announced two clergy hirings to fill key positions on its team. Matt Goldberg, a sixth-year student at Hebrew College in Boston will be […]
Who The Folk?! Naomi Silber
This past week may have been the hardest Naomi Silber has ever worked. And since her job is development director of Pro-Choice Minnesota, that would make sense. In the wake […]
How Ron Mandelbaum Is Part Of Innovating Health Care
Ron Mandelbaum is, by his account, on his third or fourth career at this point. “This is like this not your typical startup, a bunch of 20-year-olds that come up […]
St. Paul Native Charley Smith Is Israel’s 74,000th Oleh
Nefesh B’Nefesh, in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNF-USA, welcomed its 74,000th Oleh. Charley Smith, 34, made Aliyah […]
A First-Person Story Of Fleeing Putin’s Russia
Editor’s Note: The St. Louis Jewish Light learned of Russian Jew Tatiana Glezer, 41, and her plight through a network of friends in the United States. Largely fluent in English, […]
Who The Folk?! Becca Mayo
Becca Mayo had to transfer away from a school known for its film program to learn what she really wanted to know about film. After graduating from the University of […]
Many Films Of Jewish Interest Coming To MSP Film Festival
There are more than 200 films that will be a part of the MSP Film Society’s 41st annual MSP International Film Fest, and many of them are of Jewish interest. […]
Vikings Helping JCRC Educate Teachers On Holocaust
Holocaust education has long been part of the mission of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. But when there was a threat that would have seen […]
Erica Solomon Picked As NCJW MN Executive Director
Erica Solomon, who was the former director of the JCFS NextGen program, was named the next executive director of National Council of Jewish Women Minnesota, effective June 1. Solomon replaces […]
Jewish Millennial Survey Shows Israelis, Americans At Odds On Key Issues
The majority of Jewish American Millennials believe that being connected to Israel is important to their Jewish identity, according to a new American Jewish Committee survey. The survey was done […]