Editions
Gaza and Israel
Jewish Community Council of Minnesota and Dakotas Response to: Gaza and Israel by Ed Felien
BY STEVE HUNEGS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “Friends in need are friends indeed. Here tonight, we are friends indeed.” It is worth recalling this exhortation by Governor Mark Dayton at last week’s Israel community gathering when reading Ed Felien’s recent column on the ongoing conflict between Israel, a liberal western democracy, and…
Lending discrimination report hits standstill in City Council committee
BY TAMAR MYERS Banks must release more data on Minneapolis mortgage loans in order to truly investigate alleged race-based discrimination in housing loans, a July 23 City Council committee meeting starkly revealed. University of Minnesota law professor Myron Orfield presented his report entitled “Twin Cities in Crisis: Unequal Treatment of…
Charley’s Garden “Sharing is key to survival”
Raina’s Wellness “Eating well at The Fair”
Queen of Cuisine “We cook what we love, and love what we cook”
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Blackbird 3800 Nicollet Ave. S. 612-823-479 www.blackbirdmpls.com Yes, once in a while, truth in advertising does prevail. Perhaps the Gold Standard is Blackbird cafe’s promise: “Our goal is to make Minneapolis yummier by offering a high quality meal at a good value.” And what they neglected to…
Minnehaha Parkway Detour
The E Minnehaha Parkway Resurfacing Project, from 27th Ave. to 38th Ave., will begin Aug. 12. The westbound portion will begin after the eastbound is substantially complete. The intersections at 38th Ave. S. and 39th Ave. S. will remain open to traffic. It will last approximately seven weeks. Detours and…
Treehouse a staple of the Twin Cities
Fancy Ray and the Hosmer Library Talent Show
War and more war
Powderhorn Birdwatch “The mysterious ways of birds and men”
Kim Carrier highlights and moonlights
Bringing the community back to movie renting
Could there be a simple solution?
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN At a service organized in Milwaukee by the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, as reported by Annysa Johnson in the Milwakee Journal Sentinal (July 17), “worshippers sang ‘Donna Nobis Pacem,’ or ‘Grant us Peace’ in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic. And Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Unitarian clergy…