By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News After publishing a memoir of the trials and tribulations of his bar mitzvah prep circa 1950, Arthur Plotnik was one-upped by this reporter as we sat in…
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I hate dogs. To be more accurate, I am scared of dogs. Have been ever since I was a little kid. You see, a couple houses down from ours lived a very scary dog with…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News A wall of glass lets in light streaming through trees. Sealed stone frames a wood-milled holy ark. Natural wood planks run along the lobby ceiling. The new…
By Harold Witkov, Special to Chicago Jewish News I lost my mother in 2015; dad died in 2018. I thought my brother and I had uncovered everything worth holding onto of theirs, but I was…
Sunday, July 21 Multi-generational community celebration to unveil OSRUI’s new Heichal HaTarbut Kaye (Kaye Cultural Center), a purposeful space for community, worship and performance. The OSRUI camp community will host a dedication ceremony and special program in…
By Rabbi Doug Zelden, Torah Columnist Torah Portion: Balak (Numbers 22:2−25:9) Two weeks ago we read the Torah Portion of Korach. Korach was turned out to be popular but not such a good guy, as…
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, JTA This is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever read. It’s about a Manhattan psychiatrist, Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf, known for treating — and name-dropping — an array of celebrity…
I much prefer covering the news to being part of it. And yet part of it is exactly the position I found myself in a few days ago when I was in Jerusalem, sitting in…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News You can satisfy some of the people some of the time. Other times, you just can’t please anyone. Well, almost anyone who brings up transportation to downtown…
