Federal court hearing turns Talmudic in the case of Hebrew National

By Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World

During a St. Paul federal court hearing last Friday, on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit alleging that Hebrew National’s hot dogs are not kosher, pages of Talmud were projected onto video screens.

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GLOBAL GROCERIES | Kosher groceries are now a lot harder to get in Minnesota

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Sara Cooper, owner of Cooper's Foods at the kosher section of her market. (Photos by Stephanie Fox)

The rumors circulating among grocery store owners and observant Jews that Twin Cities Poultry had gone out of business turned out to be true. As the only kosher food distributor in the upper Midwest, their closing has left grocery stores like Cooper’s SuperValu Foods in St. Paul scrambling to find ways to fill the shelves for their customers who keep kosher.

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Jesus vs. the 1970s: How the Peters Brothers of St. Paul convinced me to destroy my KISS records

By Jon Hunt, l'etoile magazine

I am in my bedroom, on my knees on the thick blue shag carpet that only existed in the decade previous. In my hands is a copy of KISS’s Destroyer album. Around me, on the floor, are other KISS records. They have been snapped cleanly in half.

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Laurie Radovsky finds healthy way to take the Food Stamp Challenge in Minneapolis

By Eva Heithausen, TC Daily Planet

Laurie looks through the ads.

Can people eat healthy if they have just $31.50 to buy food for a week?

This was a question that Laurie Radovsky, a participant in the Twin Cities Food Stamp Challenge, asked herself. As a family doctor, she tells her clients that it is possible to eat healthy without spending hundreds of dollars for food. Now she used the Food Stamp Challenge as an opportunity to test her own conviction. That meant committing to shop and eat for a week on a budget of $31.50 per person — the amount that, on average, food stamp recipients receive.

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Minnesota Jews, Christians and Muslims take Food Stamp Challenge together

By Eva Heithausen, TC Daily Planet

Searching for cheap food.

Can we imagine what does it mean to live on a food allowance of $31.50 per week?  Participants in the Twin Cities  Food Stamp Challenge week, November 11-18, now have a lot better idea of what it takes.  Members of 15  groups took the Food Stamp Challenge from November 11-18.  They  tried to buy groceries from the $31.50 allowance that is the national average per person for food stamp recipients, and to eat for one week just from the purchased goods. 

This year was the second time that Rabbi Amy Eilberg had participated in the challenge and she had already made a list of essential things she wanted to buy. As she talked about her list at the opening gathering on November 11, one of the listeners raised his hand.

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Panel on November 19 to discuss the 'December dilemma' for interfaith familes

By Sheree Curry, TC Jewfolk

Chris Kellogg is the Jewish mom many strive to be. Mezuzahs adorn the doorposts of her kosher Golden Valley home, where knishes, kugels or matzah balls are staples on the table during Jewish holiday celebrations. Although both of her daughters have since left the nest, Chris still calls them every Shabbat to say the traditional blessing, a ritual she started when they were very young.

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Leaders from 15 local religious organizations will eat on the average weekly food-stamp allowance to raise awareness of hunger and poverty

By Erin Elliott Bryan, American Jewish World

Rabbi Morris Allen: It’s a pretty stark kind of budget. And families are making these decisions all the time.

“Blessed are You, Lord, our God, King of the Universe who brings forth bread from the earth.”

— Hamotzi (The Blessing Over the Bread)

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Churches try to bridge differences over Marriage Amendment through conversations

By Kristoffer Tigue, TC Daily Planet

Respectful Conversation gathering at Prince of Peace Lutheran in Burnsville on 10/9/12. (Photo by Maria Paschke, Communications and Development Assistant at the Minnesota Council of Churches.)

What if the solution to our political gridlock was as simple as the ground rules they set in group therapy sessions like Alcoholics Anonymous?

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Day of Dignity: Minnesota Muslims provide assistance in North Minneapolis community

By Ge Gao, TC Daily Planet

(Photos by Ge Gao)

On October 7th, Minneapolis Muslims held their second annual Day of Dignity event for north Minneapolis residents and homeless persons.

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