Religion
Minnesota Idea Open finalist Fatuma Mohamed proposes Hidden Pearls Project to educate Minnesotans about Muslim women
This past spring the Minnesota Idea Open, an online competition for social change, had asked the public for suggestions on their Challenge III question, “What is the best idea to build bonds and work together across cultures and faiths here in your community?” The Minnesota Community Foundation, which created MIO three years ago, believes that our state has become very diverse in cultures and faiths and that we need to build relationships with people across individual differences.MORE »
When the whole family needs help: Jewish Family Service of St. Paul's Senior Advocacy Services offers a variety of resources and support
If you live out of state and your aging parents require additional services, where do you turn? If there is dissension among family members about healthcare roles and responsibilities, who can you talk to?MORE »
There's pork in those Pop-Tarts: Navigating the supermarket as a Muslim
Living as a Muslim in America, and especially the Midwest, can be a challenge sometimes. Surprisingly, it's not the big stuff that I end up dealing with every day, but the small stuff, the stuff you don't think about until it's right there in front of you: whether you can eat the candy that's been set out on a desk, or the birthday cake a coworker brings in, or the food at a neighborhood barbecue.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | At Park Square Theatre, "Doubt" is a riveting drama
A riveting production of Doubt: A Parable is now playing at Park Square Theatre. In 2005, playwright Patrick Shanley’s play won both the Pulitzer Prize Award for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Director Craig Johnson delivers a tight, well-paced and tense production of this multi-layered play.MORE »
May Day! May Day! Voting 'no' will not change the law that bans gay marriage
I had a welcome breath of fresh air about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment in the fresh air in Cottage Grove Sunday evening.MORE »
Pray-In told to be quiet at St. Paul Cathedral: GLBT supporters say they will continue with rosary prayer vigils
Last week was the first of many Pray-Ins scheduled at the Cathedral by a group of practicing, yet dissenting, Catholics. The first Pray-In, by a group of Catholics supporting GLBT acceptance within the Church, did not happen exactly as planned.MORE »
"The Catholic vote" and "making hay while the sun shines"
This afternoon I attended the first of three sessions called “Forming Our Conscience” in the Undercroft (church basement) of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. I was most positively impressed. There were 50 of us in the room – more than I expected.MORE »
Nuns' group, representing 80% of women religious, slammed by Vatican for 'radical feminism'
You'd have liked the nuns I used to work for.MORE »
Local yeshiva buys Bnai Emet
Last June, just before Bnai Emet Synagogue’s final Shabbat services, Neil Meyer said he hoped that the Bnai Emet property stayed in the Jewish community.
Meyer, of the Meyer and Njus law firm in Minneapolis, is president of the Bnai Emet board, the legal entity that was formed to manage disposition of the dissolved congregation’s assets.MORE »
People of the film
The Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival has concluded, but movie lovers of the Jewish persuasion need not go into a funk.MORE »
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