By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson Another horrific mass shooting, this time at a high school in Florida. As has occurred each previous time, a crazed killer with an assault weapon murders more than a dozen…
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By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The acid test of Aviva Rosman’s non-partisan, apolitical operation of her BallotReady web site was in profiling Arthur Jones’ stances running for Congress in Illinois’ 3rd District. Any…
Corky Siegel headlines the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News An array of sights always locks in on the senses for attendees of the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival in the Cook…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Barbara Paget’s family did not have a track record of working for charitable causes. The Highland Park senior citizen was not a classical activist in her youth. And…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The story of Bev and Howard Reinglass’ “old home week,” condensed into a day, got more engrossing the more I heard it at their home on the Winnnetka-Northfield…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News There is no doubt that Rabbi Menachem Schneerson would give a nod to Rabbi Aron Wolf’s work. But just a slight one. “I was a follower of Rabbi…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News What, indeed, is with Chicago? Why don’t we douse our hot dogs in ketchup, to the point where violators are deemed akin to sinners? Why is the weather…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Yiddish isn’t just some fading memory of one’s bubbie switching from accented English to her immigrant’s language when she did not want eavesdropping on her private phone conversations….
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Leo Melamed sounds like a super scout for a professional sports team in analyzing the makeup of a good commodities trader. “It depends more on psychological makeup…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News It was his own personal evolution that has led Brad Sugar to expand his horizons to include the entire world rather than just the Jewish world. Skokie native…