Upcoming Events

@ 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

The Letters Project: Conversing Across Narratives

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas is running a letter-writing contest based on Yossi Klein Halevi’s book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor: With an Extensive Epilogue […]

@ 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Virtual Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival

The JCRC is proud to sponsor two films at the Virtual Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival: The Tattooed Torah and Sister/Stranger. Please visit the Film Festival website for more information. The Tattooed […]

@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Living Room Learning with Mark Wilf

Mark Wilf serves as chair of Jewish Federations of North America and is the President/Owner of the Minnesota Vikings. How is Mark approaching the challenges each organization is facing today. […]

@ 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Impact of Trauma from Generation to Generation

Featuring Dr. Irit Felsen Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4 Free and Open to the Public Dr. Felsen, herself a child of Survivors, studied in Israel, Germany and at […]

@ 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm

Candles & Politics

The JCRC invites you to celebrate Hanukkah by lighting hanukkiyot in your homes and participating in a conversation with Minnesota's legislative leaders. Speaker Melissa Hortman, Rep. Tony Albright, Sen. Melisa […]

@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Living Room Learning: Israel in Africa

TEST Following the December arrival of hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel, what is the status of the thousands of Ethiopians waiting to make aliya? How does Israel help combat locust swarms and wildfires in Ethiopia? What makes Senegal the Start-up Nation of Africa and how has the Jewish state supported its innovation ecosystem?

@ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Leading With Our Values, featuring Dr. Micah Goodman — iEngage Series Launch

Dr. Micah Goodman, author of Catch-67 and a leading voice in Judaism, Zionism, the Bible, and the challenges and opportunities facing Israel and contemporary world Jewry, launched the iEngage program with this community conversation. iEngage: Jewish Values and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a program of the Sholom Hartman Institute, explores one of the most divisive issues affecting the Jewish people today.

@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

Following the paper trail of this antisemitic conspiracy theory across Europe, from England to Italy to Poland, from the twelfth to the twentieth century, Magda Teter shows how the blood libel became rooted in European imagination and why this myth persists today.

@ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

First: Sandra Day O’Connor

Spend an evening with bestselling authors Evan and Oscie Thomas.

Their talk will be followed by personal reflections from two of Justice O'Connor's former judicial clerks: Ivan K. Fong, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary 3M; and Lisa Kern Griffin, Candace M. Carroll and Leonard B. Simon Professor of Law, Duke University.