By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News One of Norm Levitz’s most outstanding characteristics is that he’s delightfully stubborn. He grew to love Israel on his annual Passover visits over four decades with his wife…
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By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News At the ARK, Chicago’s longtime Jewish social services agency, the story behind the story is its seven-year-old second office in Northbrook that does not get the publicity of…
By Shraga Simmons, Aish.com Two years ago, a 17-year-old Shanee Markovitz woke up one hot summer morning to discover that her mother, Sharon, had ended her life by suicide. Standing barefoot in her pajamas in front…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Bena Shklyanoy, 72, of Chicago began the family blog www.appledoesnotfall.com to educate her grandchildren about her experience as a Soviet Jewish émigré and that of an older generation…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News So why did so many Jews gravitate to vending at Chicago’s ballparks? You could have formed a dozen minyans from the roster of peddlers of beer, hot dogs,…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Sadie Schuster is not Rochelle Distelheim’s alter ago. Sadie, a fictional Jewish immigrant living on New York’s Lower East Side in 1913, is Distelheim, a combination of…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Genevieve Liu and her late father, Dr. Donald Liu, were cut from the same cloth. Genetics, to be sure. But another factor just as important is at play…
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…
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…