Aimee Levitt
By Aimee Levitt
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Food The Search for Perfect Sufganiyot in Chicago
It’s about halfway through Hanukkah, and your initial excitement about latkes has worn off. But if your enthusiasm for arteriosclerosis has yet to be sated, there’s still a second stage to savor: the pleasures of sufganiyot. Unlike latkes, which are always better homemade, one of the greatest of these pleasures is that you can buy…
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News Undeterred by Berlin Attack, Jews and Muslims in Chicago March for Syrian Refugees
About 50 Jews and Muslims demonstrated in front of Chicago’s Trump Tower Wednesday evening to demand that Governor Bruce Rauner reverse his position against allowing Syrian refugees into the state of Illinois. “East Aleppo is about to fall,” said Eli Massey of Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the march’s sponsors. “It’s important for Illinois…
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News Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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News Northwestern’s Peter Hayes Puts His Master Class on the Holocaust into a Book
For 36 years, Peter Hayes’s History of the Holocaust course at Northwestern University was the best lecture series on campus. Over the course of eight weeks, Hayes, a professor of German history, explained the Holocaust by answering a series of questions: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why didn’t the Jews fight back?…
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News J.B. Pritzker, Democratic Mogul, Mulls Run for Illinois Governor
J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, has expressed interest in running a self-financed campaign for Illinois governor in 2018, Politico has reported. Pritzker, a Democrat who is a member of one of the country’s wealthiest families and himself the cofounder and managing partner of the Pritzker Group, a private investment firm, has been making…
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Breaking News Rahm Emanuel Talks Immigrants and Infrastructure in Meeting With Donald Trump
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump are not natural political allies, and Emanuel has been vocal in his opposition to the president-elect on many issues. Nonetheless, the two sat down Wednesday for a 45-minute conversation at Trump Tower in New York, joined by Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior advisor Stephen Bannon….
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News Rahm Meets Trump, Talks Immigrants and Infrastructure
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump are not natural political allies, and Emanuel has been vocal in his opposition to the president-elect on many issues. Nonetheless, the two sat down Wednesday for a 45-minute conversation at Trump Tower in New York, joined by Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior advisor Stephen Bannon….
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News The Rabbinic Student With a Plan To Solve Chicago’s Gun Violence Problem
Tamar Manasseh likely won’t be ordained as a rabbi until next year, but she already has her congregation: a street corner in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, where she has worked out her own solution to the city’s gun violence problem. Every afternoon during the Chicago Public Schools summer vacation, Manasseh and what…
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