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…
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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,…
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Scott Shay is truly a preacher man. The Rogers Park native has just finished a delicious kosher lunch in Skokie. An additional menu item would be plotting…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Theodore F. Perlman remembers his mother as the first feminist in the Jewish organizational world. She was the national founder in 1944 of B’nai B’rith Girls, a…
Chicago’s dance community is mourning the passing of Dame Libby Komaiko. Komaiko, who was Jewish, died at Chicago’s Illinois Masonic Hospital from pneumonia, complicated by Lupus and Raynaud’s Syndrome. She was 69 years old. …
To the many colleagues and supporters of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who died at the age of 67, he was a man of vision whose enormous drive to succeed both facilitated and complicated his relentless efforts…
By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News Some dentists volunteer abroad on medical mission trips. Dr. Theodore Siegel donates his time to locals who can’t afford dental care. Once a year, on Valentines Day,…