Your starting point for connecting with Jewish life in the Twin Cities.
The Twin Cities Maimonides Society is the place to connect with Jewish healthcare professionals. Through your gift to the Minneapolis Jewish Federation Community Campaign, the St. Paul Federation Community Campaign, and public service opportunities for tikkun olam, you’ll change lives in our community and in Jewish communities around the world.
Our programs vary from glimpses inside the future of healthcare in Minnesota, to intimate conversations with Israeli medical professionals providing humanitarian aid to bordering nations to a community-wide conference helping families prevent and manage obesity.
For more information:
Minneapolis Metro Area – Tslil Shtulsaft, tshtulsaft@jewishminneapolis.org
St. Paul Metro Area – David Kaplan, dkaplan@stpaulfed.org
Perhaps the most famous Jewish physician of all time, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon, also known as either Maimonides or Rambam, was born in Spain in 1135 and died in Egypt in 1204.
Want to dig deeper into the life of Maimonides? Maimonides scholar Dr. Benjamin Gampel of the Jewish Theological Seminary gave the keynote address at Federation-supported “Jewish University for a Day” held at the University of Minnesota. Watch his talk here: