A group of investors led by a Jewish former Chicago alderman has purchased the Sun-Times newspaper, outbidding the owners of the Chicago Tribune for its main rival and ending a federal antitrust investigation into the sale. Former Chicago Alderman Edwin Eisendrath and the group of investors beat out Tronc Inc, the owner of the Chicago…
The farm at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago is very much an urban farm, with a bus line running past the side entrance, and tourists passing by to see Barack Obama’s former home across the street; so, the volunteer farmers do not feel obligated to wake up at the crack…
(JTA) — The journalist who first reported the ejection of three Jewish women from the Chicago Dyke March has been stripped of her reporting duties. Gretchen Rachel Hammond, an award-winning reporter for the Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper, has been moved full-time to the paper’s sales desk as of Monday. Hammond was the…
This weekend is one of the most important weekends of the year. Yes, it is the Chicago Margarita Festival. There’s nothing particularly Jewish about this, but the beauty of the margarita is that it does not discriminate. For $20, anybody can spend six or seven hours drinking margaritas, which will dull the pain of having…
When my grandparents gave me a Star of David necklace in elementary school, they did not mention Israel. A few years later, they told me about my family members who survived and died in the Holocaust, and the Star of David they were required to wear on their clothing. Still, no utterance of the Jewish…
Stephanie Goldfarb is a social worker at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and also the winner of “America’s Best Cook” on the Food Network and proprietor of Seven Species Supper Club, a bimonthly dinner at her home in Edgewater. As a member of both Chicago’s Jewish and LGBTQ communities, she was upset by the…
What do The Israel Project and the Chicago Dyke March organizers have in common, Peter Beinart asks in his response to my op-ed published on Tuesday. Nothing — that’s the short and only answer to his latest slanderous assault on the integrity of my organization. We, at TIP, are a nonpartisan, centrist, umbrella organization that…
To the Chicago Dyke March organizers: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” The House Un-American Committee (HUAC) routinely asked that question. The history of McCarthy-era witch-hunts shows that political litmus tests and coerced loyalty oaths serve to clean house, to delegitimize and expel undesirables. Not surprisingly, HUAC…
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