April 15, 2021
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Maybe next year will be the time we can all get together to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut as a community, but as long as we’re all going to be together virtually, the JCC and their community partners are determined to make the best of it. Steve Mintz, the new director of programming at the Minnesota JCC, […]
Continue readingApril 14, 2021
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The camps are two of 13 to receive funding.
Continue readingApril 9, 2021
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Part 4: Staff reflects on Herzl Camp’s past to create for the future.
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Part 3: Programming camp through a pandemic.
Continue readingApril 7, 2021
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Part 2: Planning testing and tracing into a summer at camp
Continue readingApril 6, 2021
April 1, 2021
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My first solo outing as a new mom was to a gathering of queer Jews studying Talmud in a heimisch, if simple, room in Brooklyn. It was September 2019, back when gathering with a bunch of unmasked folks for hummus, tortilla chips, and Talmud study was a harmless activity. The gathering was part of an […]
Continue readingMarch 30, 2021
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Nowadays, the easiest ways to read up on ideas circulating in the Jewish zeitgeist are to skim tweets; skim catchy headlines on op-eds; or occasionally skim the op-eds themselves. But that experience isn’t necessarily fulfilling or educational. There’s only so much that can be said in 280 characters or in a 1,000 word limit, and […]
Continue readingMarch 29, 2021
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In a win for the campus Jewish community, University of Minnesota students voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism during this year’s all-campus election, held from March 22-26. The margin of victory was 16 percent, with 1,705 votes for and 1,231 against. The definition will now go to the U’s […]
Continue readingMarch 26, 2021