Ask the Rabbi: A Jewish Book That Isn’t A Jewish Book
Question – My book club is trying to pick a book to read this summer. We want something that plays with Jewish themes, but that isn’t a book ABOUT Judaism […]
August 1, 2025
April 10, 2025
Minnesota Clergy Urges Congress Not To Cut SNAP Program
Dear Members of Congress, We write as Minnesota Jewish clergy members serving a variety of organizations and congregations possessing a wide range of public policy perspectives. We are united by […]
April 1, 2025
Letter to the Jewish Community about Constitutional Rights and Jewish Safety
To our Minnesota Jewish Community, We write as a diverse body of rabbis, serving communities with a wide range of perspectives on U.S. politics and on Israel. We write at […]
December 3, 2024
When Jews Excuse Anti-Zionist Vitriol
Rabbi Alexander Davis is the Senior Rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park. What should we call a person who charges Israel with genocide? When it is Hamas, […]
April 30, 2024
Minnesota Rabbinical Association Pens Letter To UMN Administration
Dear University of Minnesota Administration, This week Jews all over the world are celebrating Passover, the holiday commemorating the Israelites’ Exodus from slavery in Egypt during the biblical period. In […]
April 22, 2024
Rabbi Zimmerman on Passover as a Powerful Pedagogic Experience
When Passover approaches, I often reflect on the ways that the ancient and communal ritual of the seder is also very personal. For me, the essence of Passover has been […]
February 5, 2024
Minnesota Rabbinical Association Back Frey’s Ceasefire Resolution Veto
We support Mayor Jacob Frey in his veto of Resolution No. 2024R-014 in Legislative File No. 2024-00011 which was passed by the Minneapolis City Council on Thursday, January 25. We […]
January 18, 2024
Minnesota Rabbinical Association Opposes Proposed Mpls. Council Resolution
We write to you today in regard to the resolution entitled, “Support of Permanent Ceasefire and Preventing Loss of Human Life in the Middle East” which is presently being considered […]
November 23, 2023
Thanksgiving In A Time Of Rising Antisemitism
Even as scenes of Neo-Nazis marching down the streets of Madison, Wis., where my son goes to college play over and over in my mind, on this Thanksgiving, I am […]
September 8, 2023
Quiet Your Soul
Part One of a Three-Part Series on Shabbat The celebrated author, Aldous Huxley, published The Perennial Philosophy in 1945. He called his era, “the age of noise,” and railed against […]