July 13, 2022
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Beth Kieffer Leonard, managing partner of Lurie, LLP, an accounting and consulting firm in Minneapolis, has spent four years as the chairperson of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s budget and finance committee. In that time, most of it during the pandemic, she helped the legacy organization sort out its finances and build philanthropic endowments to […]
Continue readingJuly 12, 2022
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Jewfolk, Inc., TC Jewfolk’s parent organization, has been awarded one of seven grants to fund new ideas to spark Jewish connection in Cincinnati, allowing us to bring our unique media-as-engagement model to the Cincinnati Jewish community.
Continue readingJune 24, 2022
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After the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States on Friday morning, several local and national organizations have released statements condemning the decision. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, and we’ll be adding to this list as we receive statements. JFCS Minneapolis/Network […]
Continue readingMay 4, 2022
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Editor’s Note: The St. Louis Jewish Light learned of Russian Jew Tatiana Glezer, 41, and her plight through a network of friends in the United States. Largely fluent in English, she agreed to write her story for the Light, which they have agreed to share with TC Jewfolk. Many thanks to author and journalist Linda […]
Continue readingApril 13, 2022
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WASHINGTON — Being in the crowded, confined space of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was uncomfortable for Kevin Smokyday. It wasn’t because of the photos and videos that he saw in the museum’s permanent exhibit, but the place that it brought him back to. Originally from Kinistin First Nation in central Saskatchewan, Smokyday is a […]
Continue readingApril 6, 2022
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time since 2019, more than 150 students, rabbis, teachers, and soldiers boarded a pre-dawn flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to spend the day at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas’ annual education trip. “The trip […]
Continue readingApril 1, 2022
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Eleven people were murdered in Israel by terrorists marking it as the deadliest time period within Israel since 2006.
Continue readingApril 1, 2022
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You wouldn’t know that a week ago, Alexandra Sakurets had been working excruciating hours for weeks on end at a makeshift refugee center in a mall in southeast Poland.
Continue readingMarch 30, 2022
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In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Israeli friend contacted Jenna Mitelman and asked her to help two Ukrainian refugees. A single mother and her nine-year-old boy needed housing. Where could they go? “Within two hours she had offers in Switzerland, in Germany, and in Spain,” Mitelman said — and a travel […]
Continue readingMarch 30, 2022
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In less than three weeks – nearly unheard of speed by the Minnesota Legislature – a bill that will divest state funds from Russia and Belarus unanimously passed its final hurdle in the legislative process Tuesday and will be signed into law. The bill was introduced to the public by a bipartisan group of legislators, […]
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