July 30, 2021
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This week’s Torah portion is called Eikev, a word that, literally translated, can mean ‘as a result of.’ I know that Torah portion titles aren’t written thematically (they’re derived from a word in the first few verses of the section), but this one is pretty on point. Everything in this text has to do with […]
Continue readingJuly 22, 2021
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In August of 2017, I was in a serious car accident. My fellow passengers’ injuries were not life-threatening, but they required medical attention. In the hospital emergency room, I found myself running from one room to another, supporting my friends as much as I could. It felt like there was wisdom and reassurance placed within […]
Continue readingJuly 22, 2021
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The exhibit is co-sponsored by the American Swedish Institute, JCRC, and Beth El Synagogue’s Greenberg Family Fund for Holocaust Awareness.
Continue readingJuly 21, 2021
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In the parking lot of the Hanifl Performing Arts Center on a perfectly quintessential beautiful Minnesota summer evening, I had the pleasure of seeing Lakeshore Player’s Production of Company by Stephen Sondheim. This is one of my all-time favorite shows and one I’ve never seen a live production of before. How apt that the first […]
Continue readingJuly 12, 2021
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What’s it like to drop everything and move halfway across the world for two years? This week we find out when we hear from Hadar Pe’er, the new Israeli shaliach to St. Paul and the St. Paul Jewish Federation. We talk about adjusting to life in America, how things compare back to life in Israel, […]
Continue readingJuly 9, 2021
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A few days ago, on the fourth of July, we had some friends over for a barbecue. It wasn’t so much to celebrate the holiday — it was more to celebrate friendship, and the fact that we can see each other in person now. The fact that we could all gather and grill together, in […]
Continue readingJune 29, 2021
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Like so many things that were planned for the summer of 2020, Anat Szendro Sevilla was fully prepared to do her artist’s residency at the Minnesota JCC over Zoom. “I realized that it would be functional, but it wouldn’t give people what I wanted to give them,” Sevilla said. “My gift would not be submitted […]
Continue readingJune 25, 2021
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Last week we went on a trip upstate with another couple and their toddler. We stayed in a lovely Airbnb in Phoenicia, NY, near Woodstock. The house was all decked out for kiddos — complete with plastic dishes and a closet full of toys and board books. It even had a wooden rocking horse that […]
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June 8, 2021
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If you want to relish a show with well fermented jokes like this one, you can see Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company’s A Pickle written by Deborah Yarchun and directed by Craig Johnson. The one-person, one-hour show centered on Twin Cities local Doris Rubenstein — and her pickles — seems to be more a descriptive telling […]
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