Northwest Home for the Aged (NWHA) and Park Plaza have embarked on a groundbreaking, cross generational effort totaling $11 million to support and sustain Jewish day school education across the Chicago Jewish community. This unprecedented…
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By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News An alphabet sampler stitched by a Chicago Jewish schoolgirl in 1868 is one of the first Judaica objects acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to tell the…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Once a struggling Jewish couple, Phil and Helen Kornick healed their broken marriage through a program designed for those married in the Catholic faith. No similar Jewish…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News A background in student advocacy gives the new executive director of the American Jewish Committee Chicago, Laurence Bolotin, the experience to help combat the increasing anti-Semitism on…
The Chicago area’s annual collective Holocaust memorial observance will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Congregation Beth Hillel B’nai Emunah, 3220 Big Tree Lane in Wilmette. The service, sponsored by Sheerit Hapleitah…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News David Frolick remembers B’nai Sholom Temple as a place in Quincy, Illinois where everyone showed each other genuine concern; where Jews, despite differences, banded together as a…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Avi Goldstein at Northwestern University joins other Jewish students in a weekly volunteer challah bake and sale that raises funds for local food pantries and awareness of…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News When Heidi Schrage of Buffalo Grove learned she had breast cancer at age 36, she got a call from a Jewish woman her age who went through…
She is a serial entrepreneur, heads an industrial real estate development firm, spent a decade as a commercial banker, has completed more than 30 Olympic-distance triathlons, and has won wide acclaim for her TED Talk….
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News As a kid, Alex Pancoe learned much about giving back from his grandfather, a North Shore Congregation Israel founder and contributor to Northwestern University. Arthur Pancoe, however,…