(JTA) — Al Franken addressed a Jewish group, reportedly the first public speech he has delivered since resigning from the Senate 19 months ago. He spoke on Sunday to the Jewish Family Service of St. Paul, Minnesota Post columnist Eric Black reported. Franken did not discuss the facts and circumstances that led to his resignation…
The regents of the University of Minnesota voted Friday not to re-name four buildings named after past college leaders with racist and anti-Semitic histories. After a two-hour public hearing, the regents voted 10-1 to keep the names of the Coffman Memorial Union, Nicholson Hall, Middlebrook Hall, and Coffey Hall, despite a 125-page report from a…
The family of billionaire businessman Irwin Jacobs said it is “heartbroken” after Jacobs and his wife Alexandra were found dead in their estate in suburban Minneapolis on Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide. “Our family is shocked and devastated by the death of our parents, Irwin and Alexandra Jacobs,” the family said in a statement to…
Updated 2:40 p.m. Entrepreneur Irwin L. Jacobs and his wife Alexandra were found dead in their mansion in suburban Minneapolis, according to local reports. A friend of the family said that Irwin Jacobs killed his wife before shooting himself. Police arrived early Wednesday morning to investigate the deaths in Jacobs’ home in the upscale suburb…
(JTA) — A Republican Party organization in northwestern Minnesota has come under fire for a Facebook post comparing Sen. Bernie Sanders to Adolf Hitler. The Clay County Republican Party later apologized and deleted the post, which it said was shared by a volunteer. The post included side-by-side photos of Sanders and Hitler and compared several…
Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, arrived in Washington to great fanfare in January. But soon after, she began to be criticized in the national media for a 2012 tweet saying that the Jewish state had “hypnotized the world” – a message that many felt echoed age-old anti-Semitic tropes…
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, a popular Minneapolis rabbi, was sentenced to three years probation on Wednesday after being caught by police in a child sex sting last year, TC Jewfolk reported. Cohen’s attorney, Joseph Friedberg, said that if Cohen serves the term of his probation without violation, his current felony conviction may be reduced to a…
A Minnesota high school student asked a classmate to a “Sweethearts”-themed school dance using a Nazi-themed proposal. The incident shook Jewish students at Minnetonka High School in suburban Minneapolis. “They really feel uncomfortable going to school tomorrow,” Rabbi Tzvi Kupfer, the advisor to the high school’s Jewish Student Union, told local TV station WCCO. “They…
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