Editorial: In Syria, the plot sickens
(Editor’s Note: The last three paragraphs of this editorial were inadvertently omitted in the May 10 print edition. The full ...
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Editorial: Israelis embrace Obama
In 2008, the day after the elections in the United States, I traveled to Israel with a Minneapolis Jewish Federation ...
Birth of the cool Israeli
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Avishai Cohen is feeling under the weather. During a recent telephone interview with the AJW from his ...
Editorial: The Passover story — with tasty locusts
When I was a child, as my mother was preparing for Pesach — putting all of the crackers, cereal boxes, ...
Amb. Daniel Kurtzer speaks at Temple Israel
Daniel Kurtzer (Photo: Mordecai Specktor) Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer spoke at Temple Israel on Wednesday evening, warning that time is ...
A barrel of laughs, the Middle East
Arab Israeli author Sayed Kashua is riding a wave of popularity, with a hit TV sitcom and three well-received novels ...
Editorial: Legalize marriage for all, say Republicans
Thinking about same-sex marriage is changing in the United States. For example, there was the front-page headline in Tuesday’s edition ...
Davening together in St. Paul
A new collaboration between Beth Jacob Congregation and Temple of Aaron Synagogue will strengthen the St. Paul Jewish community By ...
Madame President
Sandy Pappas is the first Jewish woman to serve as president of the Minnesota Senate By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Sen. Sandra ...
Editorial: Minnesota confronts guns
In early January, state Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, sent me an e-mail, complementing my editorial about the horrific mass ...
