As always, the world is in tumult, no one can be trusted, everything you believed is a lie and our last refuge is art. Or it soon will be, if another important source of honesty — a bummer, yes, but a bummer that matters — continues to be depleted. I speak, of course, about the…
(JTA) — The Chicago Jewish Star, an independent family-run newspaper, has published its final edition. The for-profit biweekly, which launched in February 1991, shut down Friday due to the industrywide decline in advertising, its owners said. Douglas Wertheimer, who served as editor, and his wife, Gila, the associate and literary editor, owned the paper. Their…
The 2018 NRA Annual Meeting, held May 4 through 6, featured a full 15 acres of firearms, shooting and hunting equipment — and a minyan. “I’m on my way back from Dallas where I took part in the NRA annual meetings — there was a nice crowd of fellow Jews,” Jonathan Burstyn of Chi-Defense, which…
The sidewalks on Des Plaines Avenue beside the memorial sculpture in Chicago’s tiny Haymarket Square were already crowded a half-hour ahead of the scheduled annual May Day rally. Plenty of unions were represented in variously uniform bright colored t-shirts along with families, an ethnically diverse population and the regular activist spectrum of radical students, artists,…
The sidewalks on Des Plaines Avenue beside the memorial sculpture in Chicago’s tiny Haymarket Square were already crowded a half-hour ahead of the scheduled annual May Day rally. Plenty of unions were represented in variously uniform bright colored t-shirts along with families, an ethnically diverse population and the regular activist spectrum of radical students, artists,…
(JTA) — Uber suspended one of its drivers in Chicago pending an investigation into an Israeli diplomat’s claim that the driver threw him out for speaking in Hebrew. Itay Milner, deputy consul general of Israel to the Midwest, wrote on Facebook Thursday that he was ten minutes into his ride, which he booked with the…
We’ve had one day of spring, and now it is summertime! Congratulations to all; may you have blissful weekends at the beach, in the park, or, if you are a certain Forward writer, doing battle with the Rodent of Unusual Size that has found its way into your apartment’s walls. If you are happily rodent-free,…
It finally feels like spring in New York, which is a mercy. Everyone looks beautiful, the city is enchanting, the parks beckon and one can almost forget that the news is very, very strange. Let forgetfulness linger this weekend, and indulge in one of our top picks for new books, movies and cultural events in…
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