A Prayer For Voting
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Shared by Beth El Synagogue’s Kesher daily email. This prayer is not a prayer about winning or getting other people on your side. It’s a prayer that we learn to […]
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November 4, 2022
Kindertransport Hero To Be Remembered at Kristallnacht Commemoration
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he late Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker from a Christianized German-Jewish family, is best known for organizing the rescue of 669 Czechoslovakian children, most of them Jewish, as the […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2022
Emhoff, Jewish Second Gentleman, Talks Democracy And Jewishness In Push For DFL Votes
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hortly after the conservative majority of the Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion in June, Doug Emhoff – the first second gentleman of the United States and the […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2022
20 Years After His Death, How Paul Wellstone’s Legacy Persists
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n 2002, a bruising senate campaign was nearing the finish line, where incumbent DFL Sen. Paul Wellstone was running for a third term against St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman. Wellstone, […]
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Rabbi Rappaport Taking On Jewish Climate Leadership Role
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n Tisha B’Av, 40 people met at a park in the Twin Cities to reflect on the impending climate crisis. The gathering, called “Feeling Grief, Finding Love,” was facilitated by […]
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Websites For Two Jewish Cemeteries Down For Updates
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he websites for the Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery and the United Hebrew Brotherhood cemetery, two of the four Jewish cemeteries located on Penn Avenue South in Richfield, are unavailable for the […]
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U.S. Role In Holocaust Examined In New PBS Documentary
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here is a great American dilemma when it comes to immigration: The country celebrates itself as a melting pot of diverse cultures and holds a proud mythos of being a […]
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A Role Model To The End, Harold Smith Passes At 104
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n 2019, Harold Smith quipped that he had no one to golf with; after all, he was 101 years old. “We played 9 holes and he hit the ball down […]
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Her State Party Apologized For Her, But This GOP Nominee Continues To Spread Antisemitic Tropes
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This article was originally published on the Forward. It was reposted here with permission. To receive the Forward’s newsletter, click here. Earlier this year, the Minnesota Republican Party apologized for screening […]
Continue readingAugust 26, 2022
Jewish Legislators Join Walz & Flanagan In Responding To Jensen’s Holocaust Comparisons
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fter a week of waiting to see if an apology was coming to the Jewish community, Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, and several Jewish legislators spoke out against […]
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