By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News If Edwin Eisendrath believes he’s working from a blank slate in designing a new kind of revenue stream for his Chicago Sun-Times, then his first office at…
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By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Of all the faces Robert Klein has shown to the consuming, laughing public over a half-century-plus, who’d expect him to be the anti-Perry Mason? My son, the…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Blacklists are frightening relics of an intolerant past like the Red Scare of the Fifties or the paranoid Nixon White House’s “enemies list” of the early Seventies….
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News On paper, being over-educated or over-qualified to teach in her Orot Center for New Jewish Learning is never an issue for Jane Shapiro. She is a Princeton…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Daniel Biss wants to midwife a “movement” to reform Illinois politics, which he says now works only for a select few. The Evanston state senator, one of two…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Is a man any less of a hero if he doesn’t talk about his great deed? Likely the truth is the exact opposite. An individual committing a heroic…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News J.B. Pritzker may have access to billions in the family bank account. But unlike popular perception, he’s never been enveloped in a silver-spoon emotional upbringing. That could…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The best actors and actresses become one and the same with their parts, allowing their audience to see no distinction between often-powerful off-stage-or-screen personalities and their characters….
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Starting young in his passion, Dr. Justin Gordon seems the ideal man to put a fresh take on a well-documented, overriding event like the Holocaust. At age…
By David Harris, Special to Chicago Jewish News I am a forgotten Jew. My roots are nearly 2,600 years old, my ancestors made landmark contributions to world civilization, and my presence was felt from North Africa…