By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The professional divorce between Lou Lang and Rabbi Yehiel “Mark” Kalish may be one of the most bizarre in Illinois’ byzantine political history. The concept of longtime…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News In many ways, what has become Sasson Gabay’s signature career role at age 70 was a natural for him, growing up in an Iraqi Jewish household in…

By David Caplan, Special to Chicago Jewish News After basic training in the early part of 1942, my dad, Aaron Caplan, had a short leave to go home, and then it was on to field…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Scott Bernstein can both check his phone and pay close attention to the subject matter at hand – the old “walk and chew gum at the same…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News A one-man Civil-Rights Act long before Congress passed its legislative landmark in 1964, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, more lovingly known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, put ultimate value…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The Israeli “Lone Soldier” at times may feel as far away as home as, say, just-deployed Illinois National Guard personnel going to Afghanistan. But the Israeli trooper…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Amid the glitz and glamour that often envelops his life, Bill Marovitz’s base was still traditional Jewish Chicago and the political webs that accompanied it. Cocktail hour…

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…

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…