December 24, 2020
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“ho is honored? One who honors others.” –Ben Zoma, Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Sages) The word COVID may be a conjunction of sorts, but the Hebrew Kavod or Kuvid is translated to mean Honor. “Kol […]
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e are a group of Jewish women writing because we are concerned about the increase in gun violence in our state and feel called to action. Our local news outlets […]
Continue readingAugust 28, 2020
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We know that freedom and safety for any of us depends on the freedom and safety of all of us.
Continue readingAugust 14, 2020
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s the supplemental federal unemployment benefits have ended for those that have been affected by job losses due to COVID-19, both Jewish Family Service of St. Paul and Jewish Family […]
Continue readingAugust 12, 2020
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acist. It’s a word that conjures emotion. Either you are one or you’re not one. And heaven forbid, you don’t want to be called one. But you might just be […]
Continue readingAugust 5, 2020
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The Twin Cities Jewish Community embarked on an adventure four years ago to build endowments through a partnership with the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and St. Paul Jewish Federation and the […]
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n the weeks after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, a group of Twin Cities Jewish Middle School alumni came together to talk about how we could take action […]
Continue readingJuly 23, 2020
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his year has been an interesting one, and Jasmine Brett Stringer means that in the most Minnesotan of ways. But out of the despair from COVID-enforced quarantine to the killing […]
Continue readingJuly 10, 2020
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t’s hurricane season, and for Dorothy Maples that means she’s usually anywhere but Minnesota. As the operations director for NECHAMA: The Jewish Response To Disaster, She had spent two years […]
Continue readingJune 19, 2020
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ear Friends, As the pain of George Floyd’s (z”l) murder still reverberates throughout the Twin Cities, America, and the World, we particularly want to express our love to BIPOC (Black, […]
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