By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Evanston’s Jill Wine-Banks doesn’t figure President Donald Trump is watching any of her near-daily analysis of his mounting potential legal troubles on MSNBC. “He said he watches Fox…
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By Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, Los Angeles Jewish Journal On our many trips to Israel, our family had never spent much time in Tel Aviv because most of our friends and relatives live in the Jerusalem area….
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Upbeat and friendly, Israel’s newest diplomat in Chicago doesn’t seem like she could have worked as a no-nonsense drill instructor in the Israel Defense Forces. “People would tell…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News While writing a book on the well-worn path of Jewish family dynamics decades ago, Highland Park’s Francie Arenson Dickman went against the grain just to put tens of…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Celebrating the wrap of a 45-year career at one radio station is normally grounds for celebration, if not outright amazement. After all, radio is the most inherently unstable…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The Nov. 6 midterm elections already were promising to be the most white-hot in memory due to the for-and-against sentiment generated by President Trump’s actions and words. But…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Rabbi Vernon Kurtz says his greatest fringe benefit of manning the bimah for 30 years at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park is witnessing the progression…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Any good documentary will have a special angle or “hook.” So if Jamie Ceaser profiled her own family, she’d have yet another great story from the Jewish history…
By Cnaan Lipshiz, JTA Barring unexpected delays, Silvia Foti is months away from fulfilling an old promise that’s become her life’s work: to write a biography of her late grandfather, who is a national hero in…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Immersing himself in Simon Wiesenthal’s character, Tom Dugan did his due diligence. As an Irish-Catholic without any relatives who were caught up in the Holocaust, Dugan could only…