Editorial: The next war?
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” said Yogi Berra, Yankees catcher and philosopher. This week’s edition of ...
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‘The Scottsboro Boys’: Singing a story of American injustice
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR John Kander traveled from his home in New York City to Minneapolis last week to help tune ...
Editorial: ADL deviates from tradition
The rabidly anti-Obama Web site World Net Daily fumed late last year about plans to build a mosque near Ground ...
Abraham Inc.'s debut album mixes funk, klezmer and hip-hop
The debut recording from Abraham Inc., Tweet Tweet (Table Pounding), offers a thoroughly enjoyable sonic mishmash of genres. The group is ...
Norm Coleman considers challenge to Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele
Catching up on politics with a Minnesota Jewish angle, former Sen. Norm Coleman is mulling a challenge to Michael Steele ...
Trailblazing Jewish lawmaker
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rep. Phyllis Kahn does not have a DFL primary opponent this year, but she is not taking ...
Editorial: Who is a Jew? redux
As the American Jewish World was going to press this week, an e-mail arrived from the heads of the World ...
Women of the Wall leader arrested for praying Monday at Western Wall in Jerusalem
(Editor's note: Please see comment below by Dr. Laurie Radovsky, a physician from St. Paul and member of Beth Jacob ...
'Only Israel' video on YouTube comes to Israel's defense, after Gaza war and Goldstone report
This pro-Israel agit-prop video, "Only Israel," by Yedida Freilich (lyrics by Gabby and Yuval Freilich), has gotten more than 300,000 ...
Rabbi Julie Gordon leaves for Israel
The well-known local rabbi has been selected for the two-year Pardes Educators Program By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rabbi Julie Gordon, a ...
