Upcoming Events

@ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Living Room Learning: A Reckoning with Race

https://youtu.be/nF6Wa9OTas8 A Reckoning with Race: The Mapping Prejudice Project The Mapping Prejudice Project is mapping racial covenants in the Twin Cities. Racial covenants are clauses--a couple of lines of text--that were embedded into property deeds to bar people who were not white from buying or even occupying the parcels of land to which they were […]

@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

‘Minneapolis: The Curious Twin,’ A Reexamination

Journalist Carey McWilliams wrote a famous article in 1946 called “Minneapolis: The Curious Twin.” It established an enduring impression of Minneapolis as the “capital of antisemitism” in mid-20th-century America. Join historian Laura Weber as she takes a close look at the “Curious Twin.”

@ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

JRLC Day On The Hill

Joint Religious Legislative Coalition: Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, and Catholic partners advocating for public policies that promote the common good in Minnesota Our schedule this year will include a virtual issue brief and advocacy training program from 6:30-8:45pm on March 29th over Zoom. We are recommending individuals and District Leaders schedule legislator appointments for the following […]

@ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Exhibit opening: Symbolic Significance

Celebrating the opening of the exhibit Join us on Sept. 11 at Elmer L. Andersen Library to celebrate the new exhibit Symbolic Significance: Tracing the History of Jewish High Holidays and the First Day of School. Curated by Kate Dietrick, Archivist for the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, this will be an opportunity for an engaging […]