By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Even separated by thousands of miles via the phone connection, the Rev. Patrick Desbois does not come across simply as a man of the cloth, driven by…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News In an upstairs booth of his Gino’s East restaurant off the Magnificent Mile, Ivan Himmel sampled his new line of kosher pizza, the preferred crust melding seamlessly…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Part of an artist’s sensibility is to leave interpretation of his work in the eye of the beholder, to see beauty or otherwise. So when a visitor to…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Most comedians getting writer’s bloc would logically rush to snare the low-hanging fruit available from 2017’s byzantine politics. There’s a president with a hairstyle straight out of a…
By Leonard Felder, Special to Chicago Jewish News In the several days before and during Passover, there’s a question that can make a huge difference which could result in the holiday feeling more meaningful this year…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Marv Levy always offers up his age-old prescription for winning. “There really is no ‘formula’ for continuing success other than good ‘PR,’ and, by that I mean P for…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The fact that good works will come out of the one-time Chicago performance of “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin” is a given. One-hundred percent of the proceeds of…
