June 24, 2024
TREBLINKA, Poland — In 1998, after visiting the Treblinka death camp site on a Holocaust education trip to Poland for teachers, Aimee Ross vowed she would never come again. “I […]
June 19, 2024
WARSAW, Poland — Kristin Thompson wasn’t expecting to encounter the story of her close friend, Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, mere hours after landing in Warsaw on Tuesday. But late afternoon, […]
April 24, 2024
Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, college campuses have become a flash-point for protests, whether supporting Israel or opposing it. Since late last week, there has […]
March 6, 2024
Charles Stander was born and raised in Michigan, but has lived in St. Paul for well over 40 years. For most of those forty years, he’s been a member of […]
October 11, 2023
Jill Abramson grew up in St. Paul with an early love for music and theater. “I was in a lot of plays and musicals at the St. Paul [Jewish Community […]
October 6, 2023
With the High Holidays, Sukkot, Shemini Azeret and Simchat Torah upon us, many Jewish people can’t help but think about food, from what they’ll eat (apples and honey, challah) to […]
October 4, 2023
Judaism hasn’t had saints. We’ve had judges and prophets and kings in the Tanach, but really no saints. We’ve had great rabbis and scholars over the centuries, but no saints. […]
August 29, 2023
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. JewBelong, a nonprofit with a website offering resources for […]
July 17, 2023
The Minnesota Rabbinical Association is the largest rabbinic organization representing the Jewish community throughout Minnesota. As a diverse group with different theological and political understandings, we are able to find […]
April 26, 2023
2,000 Jews from across North America traveled to Israel with their Jewish Federations to celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday. Leaders from the Minneapolis Jewish Federation joined thousands of Federation leaders from […]