Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER There’s no straight line between the Venice and Warsaw ghettos, says historian Alexander Lee in The ...

By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor With descendants of Kinder-transport children in attendance, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota ...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Tuesdays with Morrie is the true story of Detroit Free Press’ Jewish sportswriter Mitch Albom and his ...

Jewish World readers might not be familiar with the ways of the Amish. Specifically, the practice of social shunning, also ...

Elected officials and candidates for elective office have a great opportunity to communicate with Jewish voters via a special section “Elections 2026: Election Day” in the October issue. This special ...

A confession: Much of the first half of Ben Lerner’s novel Transcription made little sense to me until I read the third of its three parts and then went back to skim through the first. It is an ...

Paula Vogel is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Indecent, which will be presented Sept. 16 through Oct. 18 by Theater Latté Da at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis. Vogel calls herself a Jew in ...

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is remembered by many for the stirring final address by Martin Luther King Jr., the “I Have a Dream” speech. However, few people recall the speaker ...

What happened to Raz Segal has exposed a not very well-known aspect of the Minnesota Jewish community. (Editor’s note: A story about the University of Minnesota settling a lawsuit with Segal appeared ...

In June 2024, the University of Minnesota offered but then rescinded the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) directorship to Raz Segal (AJW, July 2024). Now, the university has paid him a ...

On Aug. 14, Ben Sidran, the renowned jazz pianist, composer, chronicler of American music and raconteur, will turn 83. He’s been playing the Twin Cities for more than five decades and will return to ...

Rabbi Adinah Feld has just returned from three weeks in Israel to find that a hurricane tore off a corner of her New Jersey synagogue’s roof, letting in torrents of water. That corner is right above ...