Anti-menschism
By Joseph Aaron You know, there are two ways you can disagree with someone. There’s the way of the mensch and the way of the anti-mensch. Of my many gripes with Trump, the one I…
Same boat: Israel’s UN ambassador on threats facing the Jewish state and the United States
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News The plate of Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, must by necessity be bigger than when he started on the job in Aug. 2015. Danon…
Real satisfaction: Being grateful and sharing with others
By Lawrence F. Layfer, Torah Columnist Torah Portion: Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) My rabbi, William Frankel, of blessed memory, told the story of an argument he witnessed between his grandmother and his mother. As a child,…
Events coming up in Jewish Chicago
Saturday, August 12 North Shore Center for the Performing Arts presents comedian Robert Klein in an “Intimate Night of Stand-up.” 8 p.m., 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. $32-$48. (847) 673-6300 or northshorecenter.org. Sunday, August 13 Congregation…
Video: Take a break! Kosher butcher
Take a Break: Kosher Butcher by The Late Late Show with James Corden James takes over the shift of a Western Kosher employee and fills various roles around the store including butchering meat and driving the…
COMEDY LEGEND: An interview with Robert Klein, whose upcoming Chicago appearance will feature his unique Jewish brand of humor
By George Castle, Special to Chicago Jewish News Of all the faces Robert Klein has shown to the consuming, laughing public over a half-century-plus, who’d expect him to be the anti-Perry Mason? My son, the…
Role model
Harry Truman was a racist and an anti-Semite. Now a good part of that came from the times and place in which he lived. It was pretty common place for people in Independence, Missouri in…
Keeping our word: Connecting to Judaism, body and soul
By Rabbi Craig Marantz, Guest Torah Columnist Torah Portion: Va’etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) In the words of the great Rav Kook, the human soul is part-intellect and part-emotion. The mind and the heart, they work together….
Events coming up in Jewish Chicago
Saturday, August 5 Mazurdance School presents “Big Show of Jewish Dances.” Noon, Theatre of Stevenson High School, One Stevenson Dr., Lincolnshire. For tickets and information call (847) 506-9390 or (847) 431-1425. Young Israel of West…
