Tag: Mordecai Specktor

J.J. Goldberg is a perspicacious longtime observer of the American Jewish community. A former editor and current columnist for the ...

Aharon Appelfeld, a native of Czernowitz, Bukovina, and one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists, has set most of his stories ...

The nations of the world have expressed their concern about the Iranian regime’s apparent drive to develop nuclear weapons. Iran, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Gabriel Kahane’s new album, The Ambassador (Sony Masterworks), is made up of 10 songs from 10 varied ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom has the highest regard for the folks who organized his recent group ...

Glenn Greenwald had the scoop of the century, so far, with his reporting on the trove of documents taken by ...

Young Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was abducted by Hamas militants in a raid across the Gaza-Israel border, on June ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Musicologists say that the banjo had its origins in West Africa. A number of banjo-type instruments have ...

Prior to being hired by the American Jewish World, I worked at the Capitol in St. Paul. I was a ...

The 2014 Twin Cities Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Commemoration took place Sunday night at Temple of Aaron Synagogue in ...