Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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News This Jewish Day School Built An R&D Lab
In many ways, Jewish education has remained unchanged for centuries. Students and teachers read texts together, and then they analyze them. But the 21st century has become an age of an unprecedented amount of information, all downloadable in seconds. In just a few decades, it’s already changed the way we think and absorb the world….
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News Zionist Group Shunned At Chicago SlutWalk — But Organizers Cry Sabotage
There are some things you might expect from a SlutWalk — an annual march designed to bring attention to sexual assault and “rape culture.” You would expect participants to show up in fishnets and tutus and pasties, carrying protest signs and chanting things like “My dress is not a yes!” You would expect that the…
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News This Jewish Camp Is Teaching Teens With Special Needs How To Be Independent
Like many 20-year-olds, Jacob Rapport has a summer job. This year, he’s working at Trig’s Market in Eagle River, Wisconsin. He started off as a cleaner, but after a few weeks, he asked for and received a promotion to bagger. “I think bagging has more responsibilities,” he said. “There can be pros and negatives, but…
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News Annual Festival Celebrates Free Speech — And Chicago’s ‘King Of The Hobos’
This Saturday, travel back in time to the innocent days before Facebook and Twitter, when in order to have an argument with a stranger, you actually had to do it in person. The Newberry Library’s annual Bughouse Square Debates revive a glorious era in the park’s history, back in the early 20th century, when socialists,…
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News In Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Final Exhibit, The Mundane Mixes With The Monumental
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was a planner, the sort of person who always kept a sketchbook with her where she could jot down sketches and ideas and make lists of all the things she was going to do. And she did a lot. She was an essayist, the author of 28 children’s books and a creator…
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News She Keeps Memory Of The Holocaust Alive — One Tchotchke At A Time
For the past 26 years, Susan Goldstein Snyder, a curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has traveled across the U.S. and Europe meeting with survivors (and, increasingly, their children and grandchildren), listening to their stories, and persuading them to donate their artifacts to the museum. Over the course of her career, she has…
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News Chicago Synagogue’s Urban Farm Thrives, Feeding Thousands
The farm at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago is very much an urban farm, with a bus line running past the side entrance, and tourists passing by to see Barack Obama’s former home across the street; so, the volunteer farmers do not feel obligated to wake up at the crack…
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Fast Forward This Week In Chicago, Israelis And Palestinians Are ‘Disturbing The Peace’
This weekend is one of the most important weekends of the year. Yes, it is the Chicago Margarita Festival. There’s nothing particularly Jewish about this, but the beauty of the margarita is that it does not discriminate. For $20, anybody can spend six or seven hours drinking margaritas, which will dull the pain of having…
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