Many people with Chicago roots had a grandparent who attended this shul. Today it is a shambles, and following a public fight to save it
David Berger (weightlifter) Ze’ev Friedman (weightlifter) Yossef Gutfreund (wrestling referee) Eliezer Halfin (wrestler) Yossef Romano (weightlifter) Amitzur Shapira (track coach) Kehat Shorr (shooting coach) Mark
Back in June, the leaders of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism tried to defund their college program, Koach. While the USCJ board delayed this
This is a guest post by Dasi Fruchter, an organizer with Uri L’Tzedek‘s Civic Engagement Campaign. “…and it is rationally compelling that a worker
This guest post was first given as a dvar torah at Shir HaMaalot, Crown Heights’ first trad-egal havurah, by Amy Schiller on Friday, July 13,
Caption: Former Israeli justice Edmund Levy: “If it beats like an occupation, if it oppresses like an occupation, if it kills like an occupation, it’s
This guest post was first given as a dvar torah at Shir HaMaalot, Crown Heights’ first trad-egal havurah, by Brandon Bernstein on Friday, June 8,
If one needs further proof about the “Beinartization” of the global Jewish community, then African asylum seekers are the issue to watch. The right-ward drift
As those of you who have been following this season’s America’s Got Talent and/or have read my previous post know, one of the most promising