Local stories
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Tree of Life Synagogue victims: Remembering who they were and how they lived
May their memory be for a blessing.
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Chicago Jewish Day School students ‘Walk for Water’
Seventh graders at Chicago Jewish Day School (CJDS) wanted to know. They had learned that,…
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Temple Sholom’s upcoming lecture series inspired by a call for civility
The synagogue took as its inspiration its senior rabbi's Rosh Hashanah sermon, "The Dynamics of…
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‘Super sleuther’ and Jewish geography help solve case of mysterious bar mitzvah album
The solving of this mystery takes the notion of Jewish geography to a whole new…
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A letter to our community on the anti-Semitic shooting in Pittsburgh
Words are insufficient to convey our community’s heartbreak, horror and pain at yesterday’s heinous, anti-Semitic…
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Rabbi Sam Fraint, longtime leader of Moriah Congregation, dies
During 30 years of his leadership, the Deerfield synagogue grew to become a vibrant and…
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Reward grows to more than $20,000 in wake of Rogers Park killings
After JUF offers $10,000 to aid investigation, more groups join effort
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A child lost, a community evolved
Marcia Kalman was a beautiful child, with cornflower blue eyes, light brown curls, and dimples…
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Reflecting on the legacy of retiring Chicago leader Rabbi Vernon Kurtz
Kurtz has spent the last 30 years leading Highland Park's North Suburban Synagogue Beth El,…
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Knowing her past to create a better future
Ariella Rada is the new Israel Consul for Academic and Community Affairs.