April 29, 2025
In “Sickle,” a play about the Holodomor, the Soviet-engineered genocide of Ukrainians in the early 1930s, a group of women try to overcome starvation while a fresh-faced ideologue struggles between […]
April 22, 2025
My Mt. Rushmore of singer-songwriters is Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, John Mellencamp and of course Paul Simon. The main thing that binds these four together is that their music takes […]
April 15, 2025
The name Art Spiegelman is guaranteed to evoke one word for anyone familiar with the artist: Maus. His Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel (to date, the only one to be so […]
April 3, 2025
A panel on Israel/Palestine, speakers who dabble in antisemitism, and a conference host connected to a Holocaust denier are part of the annual Exiles in Babylon conference being hosted at […]
April 2, 2025
After 30 years of being a project of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, starts its transition to become a program of the Minnesota JCC. In […]
March 28, 2025
On Monday, I went to see the film, No Other Land. As I left the theater, I turned on the news and heard that the film’s creator, Hamdan Ballal, had […]
March 27, 2025
Welcome to the 2025 emcee Today, we’re thrilled to share that our second annual storytelling show will once again be emceed by the incredible Jordana Green, co-host of The Adam […]
March 25, 2025
Jan (Shark) Frisch and I are members of Adath Jeshurun Congregation and often marvel at how closely our experiences of growing up Jewish in central North Dakota line up – […]
March 19, 2025
Like most major world events, you probably know where you were, what you were doing and who you were with when you learned about the terrorist attacks on the Nova […]
March 11, 2025
Like Tu b’Shvat, which I wrote about last month, Purim also suffers from the image of being a pediatric holiday. Purim is fun. We give and get gifts of food, […]