Tag: Mordecai Specktor

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a ...

High Holidays shul-goers will hear the powerful Unetane Tokef (“We shall ascribe holiness to this day”), a liturgical poem chanted ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced her run for governor and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison filed ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR DFLer Dean Phillips, who is challenging Rep. Erik Paulsen, the Republican incumbent in the race for Minnesota’s ...

As teenagers, Jewish St. Paul native David Fantle and his co-author, Tom Johnson, wrote letters to some of Hollywood's Golden ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On June 30, Rabbi Morris J. Allen will lead Shabbat services at Beth Jacob Congregation for the ...

After Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party won Hungary’s 2014 parliamentary elections, they erected a “Memorial to the Victims of ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Un mir zaynen ale brider, oy, oy ale brider / Un mit zingen freylekhe lider, oy oy ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a September 2017 appearance on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, cartoonist Eli Valley said, regarding the aim ...

Peter Edelman, a Minneapolis native, worked for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He’s now a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. ...