Tag: Mordecai Specktor

In his first feature film, director Yuval Adler creates a wrenching tale of compromised lives in Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone Reviewed ...

Many Jewish World readers are descendants of immigrants from Ukraine. Three of my four grandparents came from Ukraine — Kiev ...

Hany Abu-Assad vies for Oscar gold with a suspenseful story about a young Palestinian caught in a vise between Israel ...

The well-traveled and acclaimed klezmer band returns to Minnesota for shows in Rochester and Minneapolis By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Itzhak Perlman, ...

The big football news, post-Super Bowl, is that Missouri All-American defensive end Michael Sam is gay. "I am an openly, ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Growing up in St. Louis Park, Sharon Isbin had a passion for model rocketry. When the Jewish ...

An epochal event in American culture will be marked in about a week: the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ appearance ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Two Israelis charged with multiple felony counts of unlawfully employing young Israelis at a Mall of America ...

In early December 2001, I traveled to Israel with 107 other Jewish Twin Citians on a federation-sponsored “solidarity mission.” It ...

What will the year 2014 hold in store? In the past I’ve attributed the following quotation to Yogi Berra, the ...