September 6, 2024
After a summer-long search, Emily Boskoff is the new executive director of Minnesota Hillel, the organization announced Friday morning. Boskoff replaces Benjie Kaplan, who left to become the Campus Support […]
August 12, 2024
When both halves of a couple are members of the clergy, finding a synagogue to work at that has something for both of them isn’t the easiest thing to pull […]
August 5, 2024
Avigail Manneberg’s journey to art started with inspiration from her grandmother, but it wasn’t until after her grandmother passed away that she felt empowered to explore this path. Manneberg talks […]
July 15, 2024
Active in her home Jewish community of Los Angeles, Abby Gore quickly gravitated towards the Mount Zion Temple community when she came to town for college and never looked back. […]
July 8, 2024
Rabbi Samantha Thal thought she was heading to a career as a high school math teacher, when – like many college students – she had a bit of an existential […]
July 4, 2024
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, I just received a gift for my upcoming wedding […]
June 26, 2024
There were few flashpoints in Tuesday’s Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee informational hearing on antisemitism and anti-Israel incidents at the University of Minnesota in the nearly nine months since the Oct. […]
May 15, 2024
If the value in having Jewish student organizations on college and university campuses wasn’t clear before October 7, the past seven months have certainly made it clear. While it is […]
May 10, 2024
At a highly charged University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting Friday morning, student leaders from Minnesota Hillel and the Divest UMN Coalition took turns speaking to the regents: one […]
May 6, 2024
There are many ways to listen to the Torah being chanted, whether during services or while trying to learn the trope for a portion. But for Jacob Rapport, many of […]