Lonny Goldsmith

3 days ago | tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith

The Hebrew word for Pride is Ga’avah. The interpretation is about standing tall and publicly rising up in majesty. This June, it’s definitely time for some Ga’avah. I’m a cis heterosexual female who was born into the right body. That’s an easy thing to be. I’m, in many ways, exactly what the world wants me to be. I am also the parent to a non-binary, sexually fluid human. That’s a much harder thing to be. And we are both Jewish.

3 days ago | tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith

Prior to the start of Shavuot on Sunday, June 1, a dozen people were injured at a Run for Their Lives event in Boulder, Colo., when a man yelling “Free Palestine” attacked walkers with a Molotov cocktail and what has been reported as an “improvised flamethrower.” The event has been held weekly in many communities nationwide, including Minneapolis, since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel to keep awareness on the remaining 58 hostages held in Gaza.

6 days ago | tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith

When Melissa (Lissie) Rappaport Schifman and her husband Jim Schifman started the Project Hive Pet Company, they wanted to create a socially conscious company that also lives up to their values. We talk about what led them to start their business, how their individual backgrounds mesh well for the venture, and creating a company with a social mission while also being a capitalist, on this week’s Who the Folk?! Podcast.

1 week ago | tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith

Three weeks after Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, Mijal Bitton wrote a piece titled That Pain You’re Feeling Is Peoplehood, in which she attempts to explain what many people were grappling with in the weeks after the attack. As she travels the world speaking to groups of people, the sentiments in the piece still resonate. “Pretty much every week, I meet people from different parts of the world, from Australia to South Africa, who quote that piece back to me,” she said.

1 week ago | tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith

The eighth-grade graduates at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School will be the last under the current name of the school. Thanks to a multi-million dollar gift from the family of Harold and Mickey Smith, which is part of a $40 million endowment campaign, the school is going to be renamed Smith Jewish Academy. The announcement was made at the HMJDS May 28 annual meeting.