February 15, 2023
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Feb. 19: In a response to Orono residents on Nextdoor, Mayor Dennis Walsh doubled down on the video he sent. “The 3 and a 1/2 minute video that talks about government […]
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n a day when Minnesota’s 5th district Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar joined a resolution to recognize Israel as “a legitimate and democratic ally and denouncing antisemitism,” she was kicked off […]
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Editor’s note: Readers can assist former Common Roots staff by donating to their GoFundMe fundraiser. anny Schwartzman is still getting used to saying the words “former staff.” The longtime […]
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orking in interfaith, interracial spaces is nothing new for the organizers at Jewish Community Action. But nearly two years after an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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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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