April 30, 2025
Who was Andy Kaufman? A nice Jewish boy from Long Island who didn’t smoke or drink and practiced Transcendental Meditation? A nonsensical man-child? An angry jerk who pushed the limits […]
April 30, 2025
When I heard the words “culinary memoir” coupled with “Holocaust” there were certain expectations I had before I ever even opened the cover of Bonny Reichert’s debut book How to […]
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 – […]