TC Jewfolk’s Most Read, Listened To In 2021
For this piece a year ago, I wrote that “the calendar turning to 2021 isn’t going to make things magically better. But it does feel like there’s a light at […]
December 31, 2021
December 23, 2021
Security Grant Increase Lost In Build Back Better Failure
While certainly not one of the more publicized parts of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, one of the casualties of the plan’s apparent demise is a 77 percent […]
December 21, 2021
SLP Lunds & Byerlys Ending In-Store Kosher Bakery
Erica Goldberg raved about the sufganiyot that the Lunds & Byerlys kosher bakery in the St. Louis Park store would make every Hanukkah. Unfortunately, the ability to get them next […]
December 20, 2021
Who The Folk?! Sho Garland
What’s it like to move back home as an adult and become the head of the school you went to as a kid? Sho Garland is tackling this challenge as […]
December 16, 2021
Minneapolis Jewish Federation Hires Chief Philanthropy Officer
Following a six-month-long national search, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation has hired Steven Baker as chief philanthropy officer, to start on February 15, 2022. Steven joins Federation with a strong history […]
December 15, 2021
From Rare Disease Despair To Differencemakers
About six years ago, before the horribleness that no parent should have to go through, Ron Garber and June Garber Cheng were welcoming their first child into the world and […]
December 13, 2021
Shir Tikvah’s Rabbi Latz Taking 3-Month Leave
The Shir Tikvah Congregation executive board announced Sunday evening, Dec. 12, that Rabbi Michael Latz has been granted a three-month leave of absence, effective immediately. “[Rabbi Latz] is not facing […]
December 9, 2021
Unprecedented Possibility: 4 Things to Know About the Jewish United Arab Emirates
In late October, the three of us landed in Dubai to do something that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago: to visit and learn from the emerging […]
December 6, 2021
Who The Folk?! Josh Levine
Not everyone’s career path is a linear one. Josh Levine went from lawyer and law clerk to the director of Camp Alonim in California, and starting in January, executive director […]
December 2, 2021
Abortion Rights A Matter Of Jewish Values
On the third day of Hanukkah, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This is one of the most consequential lawsuits in decades concerning […]