CHICAGO TRIBUNE
by Manya Brachear Pashman
September 11, 2015

As the sun vanished below the horizon one recent Friday night, Rabbi Brant Rosen looked out over the standing-room-only crowd packed into the muggy basement of a Lutheran church in Lincoln Square. They had come from miles around to learn more about a new congregation, focused on supporting human rights, named Tzedek [Tzedek Chicago] — Hebrew for justice….But members of the Tzedek Chicago congregation also are defined by what they question: steadfast loyalty to an ethnic Jewish state..Tzedek Chicago fills a void for Rosen and others, including Ashley Bohrer, 27…a doctoral candidate in philosophy at DePaul University. She is grateful to have a destination for the High Holy Days where she won’t have to pray for the state of Israel or where bowing toward the ark doesn’t mean also bowing toward the Israeli flag that often flanks a synagogue’s pulpit. READ MORE

Members of Jewish Voice for Peace, a group Mr Rosen is affiliated with – Chicago (JVP-Chicago) disrupt a Jewish United Fund Stand with Israel fundraiser at the Chicago Hilton on 21 August 2014. Among the speakers are Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren.