Or Shalom’s new rabbi plans a ‘listening year’
If you had asked a 16-year-old Ari Margolis if there was any chance he would one day become a rabbi, he would have laughed. Two decades later, however, 35 year-old...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
Transaction denied: Chase banks won’t count change
The times they are a changin' at Chase Bank. As of July 1, all of Chase's Illinois branches, including its Highland Park location at 513 Central Ave., will discontinue coin-counting...
Mitchell Bornstein on ‘Last Chance Mustang’
Writing one's first book could be said to be akin to rehabilitating a troubled, wayward horse. Both pursuits require unyielding patience, perseverance and hope, and the persistence of vision to...
Orange is the new fitness in Bannockburn
Orange is the new workout, according to Fronzie Roemer, head trainer at Orangetheory Fitness, which is opening a new facility at 2553 Waukegan Road in the Bannockburn Green Shopping Center...
Margaret McMullan discusses ‘Every Father’s Daughter’
Prior to a recent signing at Lake Forest Book Store, Margaret McMullan jokes that she is slowly going south. The author of "How I Found the Strong" and "Sources of...
Volunteers try to change the world ‘one sandwich at a time’
On Sunday, volunteers will gather in the kitchen at Am Shalom in Glencoe, as they do every third Sunday of the month, to make hundreds of lunches as part of...
Found objects get a second, artistic life in Oak Park exhibit
"Redux: Recycled and Upcycled," running June 12-July 3 at the Oak Park Art League, is not the type of art exhibition in which visitors can ask the artist, "What's new?"...
Church boosts ‘holistic’ food program
To everything there is a season, and Tuesday brings the first summer produce to First Presbyterian Church in Deerfield, the local delivery site for Grayslake-based Sandhill Family Farms' Community Supported...
Leslie Parry on ‘Church of Marvels’
Not a bad couple of months for author Leslie Parry, a transplanted Californian now living in Chicago. In April, her novella, "Kiddo," was grand prize winner in the literary arts...
Spiritual journey a tool for religious discovery
Nolan Lebovitz, a rabbinical student, is returning to Highland Park, where his love of filmmaking was born, with a documentary, "Roadmap Genesis," and a goal of updating religion and fostering...