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Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood.

The Passover Parade, a Lower East Side tradition in the early 20th century, was a chance for immigrants to flaunt their finery.

A new exhibit chronicling a controversial period at the University of Minnesota raises the question. The names behind the most egregious acts are some of the best known at the U, including former President Lotus D. Coffman and Edward Nicholson, who served as the U’s first dean of student affairs. Both served during a turbulent time when issues of race, equality, war and students’ rights roiled the campus. Both have prominent campus buildings named after them. Now, as controversies over Conf...

Written By: Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:53 pm, Feb. 20, 2019 × U of M logo ST. PAUL — The names of four former University of Minnesota leaders should be scrubbed from Twin Cities campus buildings, according to a task force appointed by President Eric Kaler. A 125-page report made public Wednesday, Feb. 20, says the four white men, who promoted racist and anti-Semitic policies at the university, were not simply a product of their times. Rather, they discriminated agains...

Read a response to this letter from Brandeis University Press here. We are a group of scholars whose research is connected to American Jewish history and experience. All of us have read the preface that Professor Marc Dollinger submitted to Brandeis University Press this fall. We hold a variety of perspectives about its claims and approaches, but we are in agreement that it addresses compelling and timely issues. Having reviewed available documentation, it seems to us that Dollinger was invited...