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Ken Green Visit
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On page 33 of his new memoir I’m from Division Street, there’s a picture of LA attorney Kenneth N. Green standing side-by-side with TV star Robert Conrad. Can any guy this handsome also be really, … Continue reading
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Poopa Dweck Visit
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On April 10, over 300 women in their best spring finery congregated at the Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood for ORT’s annual fund raiser Lunch with a View. This year’s theme was “Savoring Our … Continue reading
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Jane Ziegelman Visit
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On April 10, over 300 women in their best spring finery congregated at the Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood for ORT’s annual fund raiser Lunch with a View. This year’s theme was “Savoring Our … Continue reading
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Stephanie Coontz Visit
From April ’11 Spotlight: Professor Stephanie Coontz has scheduled a book signing event at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park at 4pm on Sunday, April 10. After watching her speak about her new book A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique … Continue reading
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The Holy Land Revealed
From March ’11 Spotlight: Stuck inside during February’s “snowpocalypse”, my husband and I turned to The Teaching Company, spending many happy hours learning about the Dead Sea Scrolls from Jodi Magness, one of their newest professors. The Holy Land Revealed … Continue reading
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Mollie’s War
From Tzivi’s Feb ’11 Spotlight: Cyndee Schaffer of Northbrook has just completed a great labor of love: publication of letters written by her mother during her service as a WAC during WWII. Mollie Weinstein was a medical transcriber for the … Continue reading
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Julia Phillips Cohen
From Tzivi’s Feb ’11 Spotlight: Historian Julia Phillips Cohen of Vanderbilt University gave a fascinating lecture at the University of Chicago last month called “Sephardi Jews and Imperial Belonging in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Although Cohen comes from an Ashkenazi … Continue reading
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Achcar at I-House
Gilbert Achcar came to University of Chicago’s International House on Nov 15th to read from his new book The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. Raised in Beruit and educated primarily in France, Achcar is currently professor of … Continue reading
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Judy Chicago HWLC
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. ART BOOKS At Harold Washington Library Center, I heard Judy Chicago lecture on … Continue reading
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Circus Kids
CIFF 2010 Sneak Peek: Jessica Hentoff (founder of the St. Louis Arches) & Rabbi Mark Rosenstein (founder of the Galilee Circus) are animated by the same basic idea: since all kids love the circus, maybe they can learn to love each … Continue reading
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