August 29, 2023
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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 […]
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In 2021, many school districts in the Twin Cities area moved their fall start dates to avoid conflicting with Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year. But – […]
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Barbara Brooks, the founder and producing artistic director of Six Points Theater, has helped bring hundreds of plays and musicals to audiences in the Twin Cities, including 13 world premieres. […]
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Since the Hillel movement began 100 years ago, and more so, since Minnesota founded our Hillel in 1940, investing in vibrant and engaged Jewish communities and the development of college […]
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Last summer, 11-year-old Adina Togal was enjoying a carefree summer at Herzl Camp when – as it happens with so many kids – she came down with strep throat. For […]
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In 1949, Polish-born Edward David Fischman arrived in St. Paul with the weight of the Holocaust on his shoulders, having lost most of his family, including his wife and only […]
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Marnie Marmet had always wanted to write a book, but hadn’t set out to write a memoir. Still, after a year of online writing classes, that was exactly what she […]
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Perhaps the most influential year for Hubert Humphrey, the Minnesota civil rights hero and U.S. vice president, is the 1939-40 academic year at a Louisiana State University graduate program. Humphrey […]
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What’s it like to grow up the grandson of Israel’s founder? Alon Ben-Gurion (sort of) answers that as he catches up with TC Jewfolk to talk about some things – […]
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When she was young, Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber didn’t know it was unusual for women to learn Talmud, the collection of writings and rabbinic discussions that Jewish law is based […]
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