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Jerusalem stories transport the reader
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Abraham Rabinovich sees and examines things that others don’t know or barely notice. For example, there’s...
Jewish kids take the stage for Children’s Theatre Company production of Dr. Seuss classic
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN It is likely that only the most frum (Jewishly observant) amongst the American Jewish World readers have...
Editorial: Walking in Memphis
A memorial wreath marks the spot on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel where Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther...
Another golem runs amok
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Utterly preposterous, profanity laden and very clever, The Golem of Brooklyn is an unpredictable, crazy-quilt twist...
Israel’s Lincoln moment
By EARL SCHWARTZ Nearly 80 years have passed since Israel’s founders signed its Declaration of Independence, which includes the pledge...
Getting read out of the faith
Minnesota’s Jewish U.S. attorney Andy Luger spoke on the Temple Israel bima during a Jan. 25 community forum on antisemitism....
Eli Leonard headlines Twin Cities Jewish Humor Fest
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN It’s nice to have a local boy as the headliner for this year’s Twin Cities Jewish Humor...
News from the Jewish World — and the Jewish world
My editorial in the July issue looked back at some personal highlights from 28 years working at the Jewish World....
Les Block, our music maven
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to know where to start when writing a remembrance of Les Block, a multifaceted musician,...
‘Rav’ and ‘chaver,’ rabbi and friend, Kassel Abelson dies at 99
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Rabbi Kass Abelson wrote The Book on Eulogies. It was his turn to be...
