Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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News Racial Politics Hits An Affluent Chicago Jewish Suburb — But Does It Go Further?
Students at New Trier High School were pleased and excited when Andrew Aydin, a close associate of civil rights icon and Democratic Congress member John Lewis, agreed to speak at their school on civil rights; even more so when Colson Whitehead, the widely lauded author of the best-selling novel, “The Underground Railroad,” agreed to join…
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News J.B. Pritzker Makes His Move To Become Illinois Governor
As of last week, there are now two Jews and three billionaires in the 2018 Illinois governor’s race. Following several months of speculation local business mogul J.B. Pritzker officially thrown his hat into the ring on April 6. The move came two weeks after he formed an exploratory committee with $200,000 of his own money,…
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News Poet Kevin Coval’s ‘A People’s History of Chicago’ Hits Rahm Emanuel Hard, In Verse
At an early Passover seder last week at the City Winery, the poet Kevin Coval was, to the surprise of no one, assigned the Hagaddah reading of the Rebellious Child, an updating of the old-school Wicked Son. It’s been Coval’s nature to question all forms of established dogma, going back to his Hebrew school days…
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News Next Week In Chicago: Seders, From Chabad to South Side Activism
This week is Passover. Which means you will be spending the first part of it shopping and cooking and sedering and the second part cooking some more and complaining about gastrointestinal distress. If you’ve been remiss in making your seder plans, the Chicago Board of Rabbis has prepared a list of local synagogues that are…
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News Jewish Voice For Peace Draws Largest Crowd Yet — Boasts Of Attacks By Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace, the controversial American Jewish group devoted to fighting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its siege of Gaza, drew some 1,000 people to its biannual meeting in Chicago last weekend—the largest crowd since the group’s founding 20 years ago. But there was something else JVP’s meeting attracted for the first…
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News Theo Epstein For (Cubs) President: 5 More Years!
Sad news everybody: Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein isn’t planning to run for president of the United States in 2020. You’d think if anybody had the power to make America great again, it would be the man who broke the two longest-lasting curses in baseball and maybe in all of professional sports; the man who…
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News This Week in Chicago: Poetry, Mussar and Jewish Voice For Peace
This week in Chicago, like Jews everywhere, you’ll be stocking up on your Passover supplies. It’s not quite time to panic over seder preparations yet, so here’s a list of a few things that are going on, if you’re not tempted by the smell of bacon that will be emanating from the University of Illinois-Chicago…
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News Jewish In Chicago Last Week: Aimee Levitt’s Subjective Guide
“Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin” came to Chicago last night for a one-night benefit for Holocaust Community Services, a program that takes care of the 6,000 Holocaust survivors still living in the Chicago area. Before an audience of donors and 300 survivors, Murry Sidlin conducted the Chicago Philharmonic and the Chicago Vocal Artists Ensemble through…
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