North Dakota
For the first time, there are literally no synagogues legally open in America
Even in the few states that don’t have stay-at-home orders, Jewish leaders are choosing to shut synagogues anyway for health reasons.
Rebecca Bender went on a multi-year quest to uncover the history of the Jewish community in Ashley, North Dakota.
Charlottesville Marcher Denounced By Entire Family In Hometown Newspaper Op-Ed
“I, along with all of his siblings and his entire family, wish to loudly repudiate my son’s vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions.”
Zuckerberg Ditches Goggles In North Dakota Oilpatch Tour
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg toured a North Dakota drilling rig on Tuesday — but didn’t wear his goggles.
North Dakota Jewish Pioneer Cemetery Makes National Register
— North Dakota’s oldest Jewish pioneer cemetery has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Sons of Jacob cemetery in Ga…
Jewish History On The Prairie Lures Scores To A North Dakota Graveyard
Descendants gather to honor Eastern European Jews who came to homestead on the plains.
Which States Had The Fewest Anti-Semitic Incidents? The Answer May Surprise You
The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents was released on Monday, and came with some saddening statistics.
The Jewish Education of Jessye Stein — on a South Dakota Indian Reservation
One day, Jessye Stein, a computer teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was trying to persuade a student to return to his Lakota language class when the young man suddenly posed an unexpected question. “He asked me where I come from, where my people come from and what my ancestral language is,” she recalled. Stein, 24, told the student she was Jewish and that her ancestors spoke Yiddish. But that just prompted the next, obvious question: “He asked me if I could speak Yiddish,” she recounted. And when she said no, he accused her of being a hypocrite.
Fargo Gets a Deli of Its Own
No, not the TV show; we mean the real place, in North Dakota.
Resisting Christmas in North Dakota
Growing up in North Dakota, Sally Koslow found Christmas just couldn’t be avoided. That changed when she moved to the Jewiest place in the country: New York City.