Should schools suspend students for chanting ‘From the river to the sea’? A federal investigation in Minnesota will test the issue.
A school district that suspended students who used the phrase is accused of Islamophobic discrimination
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Opinion The Jewish mayor of Minneapolis won reelection. Is it good for the Jews?
A shorthand voters’ guide for Tuesday’s mayoral election in Minneapolis could have defined the choice of candidates as left, left and lefter. The winner, incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey, was one of the lefts, even if he ran to the right. “For Minneapolis, Jacob Frey is a Republican,” Carin Mrotz, executive director of Minnesota’s Jewish Community…
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Food Why they call me Juicey Jew
My old Instagram account was @ImaniJackson. But today you’ll find me @JuiceyJew. How did that happen? During a summer of growing pains, mindfulness, and healing, my alter ego emerged. Or maybe just my true authentic self came out to play. I’m still deciding. A swift change in my diet changed everything. What had happened was…
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News Minneapolis’ Jewish mayor: ‘It is not going back to normal’
Jacob Frey turns 40 today. If that sounds like a milestone, it’s nothing compared to being a double chai when he was elected one of Minneapolis’ youngest mayors ever just shy of four years ago. And it completely pales in comparison to 2020, when the murder of George Floyd thrust the city and its young…
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Culture In this experimental drone film, ‘The Big Lebowski’s Jesus rolls again
Jesus. He shows up on toast. He appears on dental X-rays. He manifests in Lane 5 of a bowling alley in a viral drone video. Sorry, we don’t mean that itinerant Jewish preacher from the first century. We mean the John Turturro character from “The Big Lebowski.” In a 90 second short, directed by Anthony…
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News The frustration, hope and diversity of Minneapolis’ Black Jews
White Minnesotans liked to think their state was a progressive paradise — until it became the birthplace of America’s most powerful reckoning over racism since the Civil Rights era. Having been born and raised there myself, I grew up with the myth of Minnesotan exceptionalism: The state has welcomed immigrant communities from around the world….
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Fast Forward Minnesota Republican group compares mask requirement to Holocaust
(JTA) — A meme that compares the requirement to wear masks during the coronavirus to the yellow Stars of David that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust appeared on the Facebook page of a Republican organization in Minnesota. Given that Minnesota rabbis recently spoke out in favor of a mask mandate, comparing that…
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Fast Forward Couple wearing swastika masks at Walmart confronted by other shoppers
(JTA) — A couple wearing swastika masks at a Walmart in Minnesota were banned from entering any other Walmart facility for a year. The man and woman, who have not been named in news reports, were filmed Saturday afternoon as they checked out their purchases and were confronted by other shoppers at the store in…
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