Vote To Reduce Gun Violence This Year
We 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 […]
September 21, 2020
August 28, 2020
Don’t Be Silent: Black Lives Matter, Say Black Jews
We know that freedom and safety for any of us depends on the freedom and safety of all of us.
August 14, 2020
JFCS, JFS Have Emergency Funding Options
As 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 […]
August 12, 2020
Stepping Up: Reflections on How to Be an Antiracist
Racist. 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 […]
August 5, 2020
To Give is Human; To Give from the Heart, Divine
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 […]
July 28, 2020
A Call to Action: Join TCJMS Alumni in Supporting Racial Justice
In 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 […]
July 23, 2020
Sharing The Mic To Amplify Voices
This 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 […]
July 10, 2020
NECHAMA Helping Locally In Powderhorn Park, On Lake Street
It’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 […]
June 19, 2020
Statement of Love By the Minnesota Rabbinical Association
Dear 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, […]
June 17, 2020