Tag: Mordecai Specktor

Two weeks ago, protesters gathered in south Minneapolis, outside of the Burger King at 34th Street and Nicollet Avenue. The ...

Yoni Bloch is a well-known Israeli musician, and he’s also making it big in interactive digital technology By MORDECAI SPECKTOR ...

Sharon Abraham-Weiss, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), visited the American Jewish World offices last ...

Bill Savran is promoting his photos from Dinkytown and the historic preservation movement By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The “Dinkytown Reunion,” a ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rabbi Marc Liebhaber began writing a column in the American Jewish World around 40 years ago. The ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert shot to worldwide fame with the 1962 song “The Lonely Bull.” The ...

This week, Jews everywhere are observing the festival of Sukkot. We are commanded to live in little huts. The sukka’s ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Hebrew National hot dogs devised a popular slogan, in 1965: “We answer to a higher authority.” As ...

Ivan and Adam Rafowitz, father and son, release an album of smooth jazz tunes By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The new, self-released ...

In the way of review, in the previous AJW editorial, I mentioned that over “many years, epochal historical events have ...