Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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News These Day School Kids Just Won Their 3rd Model UN Competition—Representing Iran
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in the north Chicago suburb of Deerfield is small—165 students, total—but mighty, at least in Model UN circles. For the third straight year, it captured the national Model UN title, this time representing Iran. It was probably the first time Iran had ever been represented by so many people in…
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News JVP Plan To Feature Convicted Terrorist As Speaker Upended By Deportation Agreement
Jewish Voice for Peace, a group already controversial among establishment Jews for its support of an Israel boycott, attracted extra attention this month thanks to a featured speaker at its upcoming biennial conference here. Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted in 1970 for a 1969 bombing at a Jerusalem supermarket that left two dead, was scheduled…
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Breaking News Jewish Candidate Launches Bid for Illinois Governor—And It’s Not Pritzker
As of Monday morning, there’s a Jew in the 2018 race to be governor of Illinois. But not the one most people were expecting. Instead of entrepreneur and billionaire philanthropist J.B. Pritzker, the Jew on the ballot is Democrat Daniel Biss, a state senator from north suburban Evanston, who announced his candidacy in a 25-minute-long…
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Breaking News Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Chicago’s Beloved Memoirist, Succumbs To Cancer at 51
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a Chicago memoirist, children’s book author, and joyful prankster died early this morning from ovarian cancer, her agent has confirmed, just 10 days after her New York Times Modern Love essay “You Might Want to Marry My Husband” went viral. The essay was structured as a dating profile for Jason, Rosenthal’s husband…
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Books Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Poignant Farewell To Husband — And All Of Us
I don’t know Amy Krouse Rosenthal. But, like a lot of people in Chicago and now on the internet, I feel I do. She’s the author of last week’s devastating New York Times Modern Love essay, “You May Want To Marry My Husband,” a love letter to her husband, Jason, in the form of a…
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News This Model Muslim Marine Offered To Guard Jewish Sites For Free — Why Have None Taken Him Up?
Like many Americans, Tayyib Rashid has been disturbed by the threats of anti-Semitic violence in recent weeks, particularly the vandalism of Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia. But unlike many Americans, Rashid, a Muslim veteran of the U.S. Marines, thought he could help do something about it. “I’m a #MuslimMarine in Chicagoland area,” the…
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Breaking News Wave Of Threats Spur Chicago JCC’s And Cemeteries To Beef Up Security
This city’s share of the national spike in anti-Semitic incidents has been notable: Two JCCs have been evacuated because of bomb threats, and both the Chicago Loop Synagogue and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center have been vandalized and defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, among other events. But after seeing the desecration of two Jewish…
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News Growing Up Feeling Safe In Chicago—Until Now
It’s likely there’s never been a safer place to be a Jew than the time and place where I grew up and where I live now, Chicago in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Here, the hardest thing about being a Jew here is finding a decent bagel. That’s a joke, mostly, but it’s…
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