Among the Jewish festivals, Shavuot has been the most sadly neglected by secular Jews, either because it falls outside the standard Hebrew school year or, after Passover, many of us just have serious holiday fatigue. This is a shame, because Shavuot has some nice features, namely encouragement of consumption of cheesecake and all-night study sessions….
Just over a year ago, I was a nervous wreck. I was set to move to a new city over 2,000 miles away for my last summer internship before my senior year of college. The number of people I knew there could be counted on a single hand. Inspired by friends, I made a J…
Isolated in an assisted living facility in Peru, Ill., 100 miles from Chicago, Selma Rosenberg longed for a visit from a rabbi. On the day before her death, she finally got her wish. According to Chabad.org News, Rosenberg had recently remarked to her friend Marcia that a visit from a rabbi would be very meaningful…
Rahm Emanuel, the tough-talking Obama aide and current Chicago mayor, does not think his fellow Democrats are appealing to the middle class. “We believe we’re for them, but they don’t — if they don’t hear we’re for them, then we got a problem. It’s not just for the string of policies. It’s also a set…
It’s springtime in other parts of the world, but Chicago is still dark and grim. This is a good week for going to a museum and getting all existential and gloomy. As it happens, there’s a unique chronicler of the Holocaust coming to town who fits the bill. On Tuesday, May 16, Father Patrick Desbois,…
The husband and wife architectural team of Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry recently closed their Chicago “Tigerman McCurry Architects” office – stating, simply, “we’re retiring.” The two have designed numerous high profile projects including the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, The Anti-Cruelty Animal Shelter, and The University Club of Chicago. As Dennis Rodkin for Crain’s reports,…
Just 10 days before her death in March, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal moved millions with a heartfelt column in The New York Times’ Modern Love section called “You May Want To Marry My Husband.” As she mentions in the essay, Krouse Rosenthal invited readers last year to submit ideas for matching tattoos. Paulette Brooks, a…
The Spertus Institute is one of Chicago’s foremost centers for Jewish learning. They take this mission extremely seriously and go to extraordinary lengths to explain all the great mysteries of Judaism. But this Sunday, they are going above and beyond with the public lecture “Why Do Jews Answer Questions With Questions?” Why do Jews answer…
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