‘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 ...
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‘Sadie on a Plate’ spans romance, cooking
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Sadie Rosen will never cook lunch in Seattle again. Fired from the Green Onion, where she ...
Norm Ornstein lives in Washington, but thinks globally
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN You’ve seen him on MSNBC and on PBS. You’ve read his opinion pieces in the Star Tribune, ...
What’s the right basis of living?
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Moshe Koppel makes a provocative argument for the societal value of religion and religious communities, even ...
Two Mia shows share common thread
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN The Sabbath Now is a small installation that has recently been added to the permanent collection at ...
Ari Shapiro connects current immigration stories to Jewish experience
Once a month, a freezer truck from Chicago would pull into the Fargo synagogue parking lot where his family and ...
Jana Shortal: ‘It felt like home to me’
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor There is no one path toward conversion in Judaism. It is a religion that ...
The world’s largest seder — in Nepal — will go on
Despite a slow recovery from a 2015 earthquake, as many as 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers could show up for ...
‘Judaism does not demand belief’
Why Be Jewish? A Testament, by Edgar M. Bronfman, Twelve, 237 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER For people perplexed ...
Must-watch Jewish TV: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
Main character Rebecca Bunch’s Judaism is a huge part of the series, recurring in ways both explicit and subtle By ...
