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…
What now? The protests following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd have been infused with hope and fraught with danger. They could result in increased justice, or more injustice. Craig Futterman and Adam Gross, two lawyers in Chicago’s Jewish community, are trying to tip the balance toward the brighter side as they tackle the…
At 5 pm on Fridays, Julia Logan pushes back her desk, moves her work screen aside and dims the lighting. In her small apartment dining room, amidst twinkling lights in mason jars, she sets a Shabbat table for one and joins a Zoom call of seven other young adults in Chicago, and across the country….
I’ve been to my fair share of Christmas-themed bars, which I enjoy just as much as the next Chicagoan. As a Jew, however, I’m maybe more able to take a step back and ask myself: Is this what Santa would have wanted? Could an elf kick back and relax here? How many Candy Cane martinis…
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago reached a tentative agreement last week that obtained significant gains in salary and benefits for the union, which had languished for about a decade. After 12 years of raises that averaged 2.2%, a revitalized leadership pushed for salaries more in line with their peers…
JTA — The Illinois Republican Party is ramping up efforts to make voters aware that a man who identifies as a neo-Nazi is running for a Chicago-area congressional seat. Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, ran for the same seat in 2018. He was the Republican nominee after running unopposed in…
Arthur Jones, an avowed anti-Semite and the former leader of the American Nazi Party, is running for Congress as a Republican in an Illinois district — again. In 2018, Jones won the Republican primary for Illinois’s heavily Democratic third district, which covers southwestern suburbs of Chicago, after no other candidates ran against him. In the…
A former talk radio host-turned Democratic congressional candidate has faced criticism for his remarks about Judaism and Israel, including criticizing a guest for sounding “like you are praising the Israeli people and the Jewish civilization as if they are great people,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Rush Darwish, a Palestinian-American community leader and business owner who…
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