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Opinion Why I already miss Rev. Jesse Jackson
In Chicago, I saw the legendary civil rights leader heal the divides between the Black and Jewish communities
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Opinion AIPAC is trying to derail my House campaign because I’m a Jew who defies Israel
The group's tactics show they know that voters don't support their agenda
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Culture When a Jewish paperboy played Santa — and the journalist who never forgot him
A 1967 UPI holiday story resonated far beyond Christmas Eve — for its writer, its subject, and the era they lived through
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Opinion In Chicago, politicians are comparing ICE to the Gestapo — are they right?
My parents used to ask the question 'Could it happen here' — the question has become 'Is it happening here now?'
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Holy Ground American synagogues are closing at a record rate. This retired judge is rescuing their stained glass windows.
Inside a Chicago synagogue, retired judge Jerry Orbach has built a refuge for the stained glass of America’s vanishing Jewish communities
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Books Kafka and Chicago taught him to love literature, Rodney Dangerfield taught him how to live it
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