Tag: Mordecai Specktor

When I was a child, as my mother was preparing for Pesach — putting all of the crackers, cereal boxes, ...

Daniel Kurtzer (Photo: Mordecai Specktor) Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer spoke at Temple Israel on Wednesday evening, warning that time is ...

Arab Israeli author Sayed Kashua is riding a wave of popularity, with a hit TV sitcom and three well-received novels ...

Thinking about same-sex marriage is changing in the United States. For example, there was the front-page headline in Tuesday’s edition ...

A new collaboration between Beth Jacob Congregation and Temple of Aaron Synagogue will strengthen the St. Paul Jewish community By ...

Sandy Pappas is the first Jewish woman to serve as president of the Minnesota Senate By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Sen. Sandra ...

In early January, state Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, sent me an e-mail, complementing my editorial about the horrific mass ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR For more than a century, juries in criminal cases in the United States have been instructed that ...

Some AJW readers might have seen Israeli jazz guitarist Roni Ben-Hur play at the St. Paul JCC in February 2011. ...

“Jewish law prefers that Jews pray communally rather than privately,” writes Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Literacy. “For one thing, ...