By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Ward heeler Paddy Bauler once summed up the Chicago Way upon hearing Richard J. Daley was elected to his first term as mayor in 1955: “Chicago ain’t…
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By Eli Kowaz, JTA In just over 20 minutes, Benny Gantz cemented himself as the most likely candidate to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli elections. Benny Gantz “I thank Netanyahu for…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News At a corner table in a coffee shop, with a drip…drip…drip of condensation providing some character to the act, Ken Krimstein set about doodling Donald Trump. The hair…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The former “Disco King of Skokie” is now engaging in an even greater starring role than when he spun his platters and raised the Saturday Night Fever level…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Oh, my kingdom for a kreplach…or three. Just try to find the classic Ashkenazi Jewish dumpling, typically dunked in chicken soup. You’d end up in a near-treasure…
Israeli police want him to be indicted in three separate corruption cases. He’s embattled from left and right for his attacks on Gaza and his policy in the West Bank. He’s made a point of cozying up to…
By Oren Hayon, JTA After my grandmother Jeannette died in December 1996, the process of settling her estate worked in the same way it does in most families: There was a house to be sold and…
Robert Lappin was in Palm Beach when he found out that his charity was broke and his money was gone. It was the same small, moneyed Florida town where he would see Bernie Madoff at…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News A keen observer of the passing scene, Saul Bellow could have been just the kind of writer to profile Zachary Leader, his own biographer. Leader’s story flows out…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News An autumn of fear has yielded to a winter of uncertainty for Far North Side Jews in the wake of an unsolved murder of an Orthodox Jew…