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- UPCOMING EVENT Bob Dold Private Roundtable
- Attorney and author Warren Kinsella, who worked on Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, wrote that he is “ashamed to have worked with her,” following her remarks about Israel
- EVENT Advance Screening by Jerusalem U on November 14 in Evanston
- “Even those who listen to the white nationalist Nick Fuente support Israel by a one-point margin, 38 to 37 percent”
- Israel ranked fourth best place to raise children in global index
- University of Chicago: Palestinian on campus shouted down for supporting Israel [VIDEO]
- DePaul University sparks furor with fundraiser for convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh
- Funerals Sunday for Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi, killed in Friday’s shooting attack at Tel Aviv bar
Tag Archives: Chicago
Chicago’s Standard Club: The shuttered club near the Dirksen Federal Building is being used to house 761 migrants now and up to 1,200 in the coming months
CHICAGO SUN TIMES Storied Standard Club latest to house asylum-seekers Fran Spielman May 5, 2023 For 150 years, the Standard Club was a mecca for Chicago’s business titans, many of them Jews who were banned by the discriminatory membership policies … Continue reading
Veteran Chicago prosecutor quits with blistering letter on crime: ‘I will not raise my son here’
REAL CLEAR POLITICS After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit Jason Poje May 10, 2023 Editor’s note: The following is an email written by Cook County prosecutor Jason Poje, circulated to colleagues last week. To my colleagues: … Continue reading
New Chicago mayor has promised to target businesses and the wealthy to pay for his social programming
WIREPOINTS What has Chicago done? Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner April 5, 2023 …What Chicagoans voted for on April 4 was someone more extreme and exactly opposite of what the city needed. To reduce Chicago’s nation-high homicide rate, Chicago needed a … Continue reading
Ticketmaster helpfully assists the “godfather of hate” play Chicago
JERUSALEM POST Ticketmaster under fire for selling tickets to Louis Farrakhan event Maya Zanger-Nadis March 7, 2023 Popular California-based ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster has come under fire from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) this week after they hosted ticket sales … Continue reading
“All kidding aside, if you happen to live in North Chicago’s West Ridge or Rogers Park – please walk to shul in groups on 2/25”
JTA Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned ‘National Day of Hate’ on Shabbat Andrew Lapin February 23, 2023 The police bulletins have circulated among Jews on social media, in WhatsApp chats and via email: … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Politics
Tagged ADL, antisemitism, Chicago, Day of Hate, New York City
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Paul Vallas polls ahead in upcoming Chicago mayoral primary
JOHN KASS NEWS The Gloves Are Off In The Chicago Mayor’s Race Steve Huntley January 22, 2023 …According to a poll released the same day that the Tribune broke the story about the Madigan phone conversation, Garcia has already lost … Continue reading
“The attacks on pro-Israel Professor Hill were launched even though leftist thinking dictates he should enjoy triple-protected status because he checks three boxes on the all-important intersectional checklist: he’s black, gay, and an immigrant”
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Posted in Chicago, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Chicago, DePaul University, Jason Hill
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In Chicago, medical debt is being erased in accordance with the Jewish law of “Shmita” – the sabbatical year
JTA An interfaith coalition erased medical debts for over 2,000 people in the Chicago area, inspired by an ancient Jewish custom Jackie Hajdenberg and Gabe Friedman May 26, 2022 More than half of bankruptcies in the United States are connected to … Continue reading
Chicago’s first large-scale active shooter drill involving police and fire departments intended to address shul-specific attacks and incidents
JNS CCL shul members and Kehilat Chovevei Tzion take part in public safety training exercise May 17, 2022 Concerned Citizens League Shul Members (CCLSM) staged a large-scale active shooter simulation at Kehilat Chovevei Tzion in Skokie recently, with the direction … Continue reading
“We would be wholly justified in adding Morningstar to state’s list of prohibited investments” said Andrew Lappin, chair of the board’s Illinois Committee on Israel Boycott Restrictions”
JTA Is finance giant Morningstar boycotting Israel? A new BDS battlefront emerges in investing world by Asaf Shalev February 8, 2022 After brushing aside allegations of anti-Israel bias for nearly a year, a multibillion-dollar investment research firm has done an … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Chicago, Illinois, Morningstar
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