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NY / Left vs. Right / Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS

Anti-Israel Protests at Brooklyn Bridge, Chicago O’Hare, Golden Gate Bridge, Many Other Sites

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

A coordinated effort on April 15 (tax day) aimed to shut down economic activity at sites throughout the United States and in other countries.

Israel / Travel / News Briefs

El Al to Start Flights from Tel Aviv to Chicago and Tokyo, Renew Boston Route

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The airline had wanted to start the flights last year, but the coronavirus outbreak delayed those plans.

US / Police and Crime

Israeli Student Stabbed to Death in Chicago

By Jewish Press News Desk

Kimchi is the daughter of Avi and Hava Kimchi, Israelis who came to the US about 20 years ago and lived in Rockville, Maryland.

Israel / US / Travel / News Briefs

United Airlines Starts Nonstop Chicago-Israel Fllights

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Throughout 2020, United has been the only carrier to maintain continuous daily service between the U.S. and Israel.

US / Police and Crime

Orthodox Jew, 24, Murdered in Suspected Serial Killing in Chicago

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Eliyahu Moscowitz, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community and a kashrut supervisor at Jewel-Osco, the primary kosher-food grocery store in Chicago, was shot in the head on the night of Simchat Torah.

Featured / Terrorism / US / Politics / The Courts / Israeli Arabs

US Court Deports PLFP Jerusalem Supermarket Terrorist for Lying on her Applications

By JNi.Media

US District Judge Gershwin A. Drain ruled that Odeh be deported to her home country of Jordan and will be barred for life from re-entering the US.

Featured / US / Politics / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs

Democratic Socialists of America Endorse BDS, Threatening a Bernie Sanders–DNC coalition

By JNi.Media

Although it would be wrong to suggest that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) is the leader of the DSA, he received the group's enthusiastic support during the 2016 primaries, and included its honorary chair, vehement anti-Zionist Cornel West in his platform team at the DNC convention.

The Tamar Yonah Show

Tamar Yonah Show - Attack on Chicago Synagogue - Now what?

By Israel News Talk Radio

What are the lessons to be learned from the Chicago synagogue attack?

Glimpses Into American Jewish History

Early History Of Jews In Chicago

By Dr. Yitzchok Levine

In 1845 the first Jewish organization in Chicago was established under the name of the Jewish Burial Ground Society.

Features On The Jewish World

Friends Of Refugees Of Eastern Europe In Chicago (Conclusion)

By Reitza Kosofsky

It is impossible to assess how many lives have been touched, how many mitzvot have been performed because of F.R.E.E., and the far-reaching effect of each interaction with another Jew.

Features On The Jewish World

Friends Of Refugees Of Eastern Europe In Chicago (Part II)

By Reitza Kosofsky

As the refugee population grew, we realized that we could reach more people through a Russian-language newspaper.

Features On The Jewish World

Friends of Refugees Of Eastern Europe In Chicago (Part I)

By Reitza Kosofsky

Because I spoke Yiddish, it was only natural for me to become involved with the Russian Jews who were settling in Chicago.

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Michelle Obama’s Cousin Named Head of Black Jews’ Movement

By JNi.Media

Funnye is the spiritual leader of the Beth Shalom Bnai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew congregation in Chicago and the only black rabbi on the Chicago Board of Rabbis.

US / Elections / News Briefs

Rahm Beats Jesus in Chicago

By Shalom Bear

Emanuel is Chicago's 55th mayor, and its first Jewish mayor.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

‘‘Suspect in Synagogue Vandalism Wanted to Shoot Jews’

By JTA

Illinois police found thousands of rounds of ammunition in the house of the suspect.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Loyola U. 'Suspends' and Reinstates Students for Justice in Palestine

By Jewish Press Staff

The soft-glove approach to campus anti-Zionists is more like a pat on the back.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Israeli Lunar Mission and Chicago’s iCenter Join Hands

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

If Israel sends a spacecraft to the moon, will BDS call the lunar surface “occupied territory”?

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Soldiers Trained in Underwear in Snow

By Jewish Press News Desk

Elite combat soldiers in the IDF’s Maglan unit might be ready for duty in the Arctic cold in Chicago, having trained in their underwear after last month’s “once in a century” snowstorm swept through Israel. The soldiers were caught on camera training in their military vests and underwear while carrying rifles. The video of the […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / News Briefs / Jordan

Arab-US Woman Arrested for Lying about Terrorist Bombing In Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

A naturalized American citizen who immigrated from Jordan in 1995 could be deported from the United States for lying about her conviction for the 1969 bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket, in which two Israelis were killed. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, was arrested Tuesday in her suburban Chicago home on immigration charges and appeared in federal […]

US / News Briefs / Egypt

Hundreds of Chicago Muslims March for Morsi

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hundreds of Chicago Muslims marched in support of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Sunday and held signs condemning the Egyptian military, the Chicago Tribune reported. Many of the Chicago demonstrators were born in Egypt, and others have roots elsewhere in the Arab world. Fisal Hammouda, who left Egypt in the 1960s, told the newspaper that […]

Israel / US / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

U of Chicago Teams up with Ben Gurion for Clean Water

By Jewish Press News Desk

The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will begin funding research collaborations that apply the latest discoveries in nano-technology to create new materials and processes for making clean, fresh drinking water more plentiful and less expensive by 2020. The joint projects will explore innovative solutions at the water-energy nexus, developing more efficient […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

A Time for Zero Tolerance and a Time for Tolerance

By Harry Maryles

When it comes to victims of abuse the overriding approach should be one of compassion and understanding. But school officials' mishandling of a situation should not automatically result in termination.

Atlas Shrugs

After Drawn Out Battle, Chicago Transit Allows Anti-Jihad Ads

By Pamela Geller

The City of Chicago has the indecency to call us 'morally reprehensible,' but it is they are morally reprehensible for attempting to deny us our First Amendment rights.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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