Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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Fast Forward In Chicago, Trump’s Actions Are Growing a Widening Coalition of Protesters
Worries have evaporated among organizers about how to follow up on the January 21 Chicago Women’s March, which drew 250,000 protesters. Contrary to widespread concern about losing the energy that coalesced around the massive outpouring that took place in Chicago and other cities nationwide that day, said Donna Gutman, president of the North Shore chapter…
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News In Chicago, One Synagogue Walks the Walk To Sustain the Land
Martin Luther King Day may be fading into the distance. But at Congregation KAM Isaiah in Chicago’s Hyde Park, the recent Martin Luther King weekend—usually an occasion for synagogues to do community service projects—became the vehicle for a discussion on climate change and the environment, which was itself just part of the synagogue’s ongoing program….
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Fast Forward Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Defiant as Trump Threatens To Cut Off Sanctuary Cities
Chicago’s city council voted Wednesday to reaffirm its status as a sanctuary city and protect immigrants from deportations almost at exactly the same time that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that tightened immigration laws and declared that the U.S. government would cut off federal grants to sanctuary cities “except as deemed necessary for…
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News Photographer Steve Schapiro Recalls Shooting the Images That Marked the Civil Rights Era
In 1963, Steve Schapiro was one of 14 photographers Life magazine sent to cover the March for Jobs and Freedom on Washington, which would go down in history as the gathering where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. At the time, he didn’t know it would be historic. The most…
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News In Chicago Theatre, The Play’s the Thing for Both Sides in Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Ken Kaissar was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, and grew up in a right-wing Jewish household in Indianapolis. His father fought in three Israeli wars—1956, 1967, and 1973—and growing up, Kaissar was told that Israel was in perpetual danger and that, as he put it, “the Arabs wanted to kill us and destroy us.” As…
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Fast Forward Chicago’s Congress Members Were Closely Divided on U.N. Anti-Settlements Resolution
When the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to condemn a U.N. Security Council resolution denouncing as illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank, the voting profile of Chicago-area members differed markedly from the House as a whole. While the House overwhelmingly backed the condemnation of the U.N. by a lopsided vote…
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News Trump’s Tweet on Chicago’s Murder Rate Provokes Strong Feelings Among Jews
Every Sabbath, the members of Congregation Am Shalom in north suburban Glencoe read a list of names aloud of the people who were killed by violence in Cook and Lake Counties that week. Very seldom do any of the victims come from the wealthy North Shore or the wider Chicago Jewish community. But the congregation…
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News Rahm Emanuel Emails Reveal Workaholic Ways — Even Amid Cubs Mania
It was the third game of the Giants-Cubs National League playoffs, going into extra innings. The winner of the best-of-seven series, which the Cubs led 2-1, would go on to the World Series. All of Chicago was watching on that Wednesday evening, October 10, praying for the Cubs’ first World Series appearance since 1945 —…
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