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…
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By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Jonathan Miller’s own “sound of music” won’t win any Grammys, and likely won’t be played on oldies outlets 50 years from now or classic music purveyors 250…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Be it courage or conflict, triumph or tragedy, Jane Leavy has covered the entire gamut of human drama in her compelling books on Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle…
CORY BOOKER He keeps a Hebrew Bible on his desk. OK, Booker also keeps the New Testament, the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita, but the senator’s is not just any Tanach — it’s an ArtScroll,…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News To have come away with a deeper perspective on not only the Holocaust, but modern life itself would have been a slam-dunk for Howard Reich in all…
Chicago Jew Ruby Harris, a pioneer of Jewish rock music, plays a variety of instruments, a range of genres but, as a rabbi and chaplain, he gets most of his satisfaction from bringing comfort to…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Decades before Susan Good became a women’s networking maven and “21st century grandmother,” she knew full well one got more with honey than vinegar. Never closed-minded, downtown…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News As Mr. Cub and Mr. Sunshine, Ernie Banks had a good word publicly for tens of thousands of people he met over a lifetime. Ernie Banks playing…
With Passover upon us, it is a good time to reflect upon and appreciate the incredible power of what is perhaps the most ancient and persistently practiced of all group rituals in the world and…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Driving toward one’s 100th birthday does not seem as uncommon as in past decades. But if a would-be centenarian is still up and about, full of what…