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, […]
June 19, 2024
The Summertime Learning Series has been a fixture of Hineni for many years. Even though it’s a program of Talmud Torah of St. Paul, it has toured the Twin Cities, […]
June 17, 2024
A Macalester College committee recommended earlier this month that the board of trustees consider divesting the college’s endowment from companies doing business with Israel, and will soon issue a report […]
June 14, 2024
Nicholson Hall, the University of Minnesota building that houses – among other things, the Center for Jewish Studies – will be renamed after a unanimous vote by the school’s Board […]
June 14, 2024
The search for a new director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will start fresh, likely in the 2025-26 school year, Interim President Jeff Ettinger […]
June 13, 2024
Growing up as a musician, Rabbi Marcus Rubinstein always wanted to record an album. With the release of Jewbalaya’s “A Schmaltzy Stew,” that goal has been met. “This is my […]
June 10, 2024
Despite what the school termed as “enthusiastic support” for Raz Segal being offered the directorship of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the school’s interim president […]
June 9, 2024
Two members of the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies have resigned in protest over the planned hiring of the center’s new director. […]
June 8, 2024
Minnesota Hillel was vandalized in the early hours of Friday morning, when three front windows and one of the glass doors were broken. The damaged panes had been removed as […]