Rebecca Gold
By Rebecca Gold
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News How a Chicago pastor and rabbi joined their Black and Jewish communities to heal and help
It began with books. Rabbi Michael Siegel gave Pastor Chris Harris a copy of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s “The Sabbath,” and “Lovesong,” by Julius Lester. Harris sent Siegel Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow.” They had met, about 10 years ago, after Siegel, the longtime senior rabbi at the Conservative Anshe Emet synagogue on Chicago’s North…
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News Chicago Jewish schools make plans to open— and experience an enrollment boomlet
Reopening is close at hand for Chicago’s Jewish day schools, after-school programs, and public school Hebrew language departments. This means devising plans that meet parent’s safety expectations, local health regulations, and teacher safety needs— all while delivering quality instruction. The result, so far, is a diverse landscape of reopening plans, including increased enrollment in Jewish…
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News David Axelrod wants to save Manny’s Deli
David Axelrod has a clear memory of the roasted turkey leg he received in a care package at the White House. “It was the size of a war club,” he said. A friend had shipped it to Axelrod, then senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He figured Axelrod missed the Wednesday Turkey Leg special offered…
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