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…
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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…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News When I finished the manuscript of “The 1969 Cubs – Long Remembered, Never Forgotten” after six months of furious writing, I realized that in reality, the definitive…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News When 86-year-old Renee Taylor takes the stage for her “My Life on a Diet” at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts beginning July 16, she…
By Ariel Sobel, Los Angeles Jewish Journal As a Jewish woman who frequently shares her opinions on social media, I’ve been targeted online by white supremacists, communist bots from China, die-hard Donald Trump fanatics, and…
By Tabby Refael, Los Angeles Jewish Journal Forty years after the Islamic Revolution mercilessly pulled at Iranian Jewry like a powerful vacuum cleaner over a precious Persian rug — forcing us to rebuild our lives…
