August 2, 2023
Perhaps the most influential year for Hubert Humphrey, the Minnesota civil rights hero and U.S. vice president, is the 1939-40 academic year at a Louisiana State University graduate program. Humphrey […]
July 28, 2023
In 2020, four friends – Jewish actors Molly Gordon, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, and director Nick Lieberman – decided to get together and put on a show. But instead […]
July 26, 2023
During his long career as a lawyer, John Orenstein has regularly found a creative outlet by working on the Purim spiels at both Shir Tikvah and Beth El, as he […]
July 25, 2023
It’s me again talking about bagels. I think I have now written about bagels and delis a dozen times for TC Jewfolk. So when there is bagel news, I act […]
July 24, 2023
Crystal native Zach Schnitzer has been acting in plays for many years but when the start of the coronavirus pandemic hampered the start of his freshman year at Chicago’s DePaul […]
July 21, 2023
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 […]
July 18, 2023
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 […]
July 17, 2023
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 […]
June 30, 2023
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, […]
June 23, 2023
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 […]