By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News A website has been created honoring the World War I military service of Illinois Army Company, Company L, which  by a scan of surnames and other evidence…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News The asylum seekers are dropped off by bus in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar city without so much as a meal or shelter to…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News When Rabbi Nate Crane was seven years old, he sat timidly in the large sanctuary of a synagogue in his hometown of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Fifty years ago, Jeffrey Doman was the only Jewish baseball player on his college team who observed the High Holidays. There was no synagogue in Jacksonville, Illinois…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Twenty years ago, Michael J. Greenberg found 50 letters  his late father had written to his late mother while he was in the U.S. Army during World…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Rabbi Donald Rossoff’s role as an interim senior rabbi is to help congregations transition between the rabbi that was and the rabbi that’s going to be. The…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News A wall of glass lets in light streaming through trees. Sealed stone frames a wood-milled holy ark. Natural wood planks run along the lobby ceiling. The new…

By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News You can satisfy some of the people some of the time. Other times, you just can’t please anyone.  Well, almost anyone who brings up transportation to downtown…

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Friends gathered at Carol Salinger’s kitchen table in Glenview, where there was plenty of talk about grandchildren and great- grandchildren. But once the pleasantries were out of…