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 […]
September 6, 2024
Jeremy Ben-Ami founded J Street 16 years ago on the ideals of a pro-Israel, pro-peace and pro-democracy. Ben-Ami is bringing those messages, and much more, to Mount Zion Temple in […]
September 6, 2024
While Jamie Raskin represents Maryland in the House of Representatives, the well-known member of Congress has roots in Minnesota politics – his grandfather, Sam Bellman, was one of the first […]
September 5, 2024
A crowd of roughly 250 members and friends of the Twin Cities Jewish community – along with another 250 people who watched the livestream – gathered on the sports field […]
September 4, 2024
When we returned to my mother’s flat after she died, her siddur was lying on the table where she always sat when she davened in the morning. The bookmark was […]
September 3, 2024
When Rabbi Sholom and Mushky Brook moved to Minneapolis to start a Chabad aimed at early-career professionals, they were trying to fill a gap: young professionals aren’t heading back to […]
August 27, 2024
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents voted not to divest endowment funds from Israel on Tuesday morning, concluding a process that started in April when anti-Israel protesters set up […]
August 27, 2024
In the late 1970s, Jim Wardlow, working in Michigan, saw an advertisement for available positions at the Hodroff funeral home in the Twin Cities. Though not Jewish, Wardlow had worked […]
August 23, 2024
In early June, professor Bruno Chaouat resigned from the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies to protest an attempted hire for the center’s […]
August 21, 2024
Naomi Petel Adler had always wanted to live on a kibbutz, the Israeli socialist-inspired towns known for their tight-knit communities. “Kids get to run around until it’s dark, and then […]