A former Michigan congressman was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on for assisting a charity accused of funding Hamas and other terrorist groups.
For Mark Levin, a native of Chicago, it took a move to Iceland to turn him into a Jewish leader.
Call it circumstantial Zionism. There’s been a recent uptick in North American aliyah — of basketball players.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel praised the city\’s Jewish federation for its work in and out of the Jewish community.
The Chicago Jewish community grew by 8 percent over the past decade, or more than 21,000 people, according to a new demographic study.
A federal trial involving a condo association that removed mezuzahs from residents’ doorposts opened in Chicago.
A project to help interfaith families connect Jewishly will launch soon in Chicago.\n
Rahm Emanuel was sworn in as the first Jewish mayor of Chicago. Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff, took the oath of office on Monday. He was elected mayor of the country\’s third-largest city in February after sitting mayor Richard Daley declined to seek a seventh term in office.
Judy Gaynor, a Chicago-area human rights and Jewish activist, was named to the federal body that recognizes outstanding high school scholars. President tapped Gaynor on April 27 as one of two new members of the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Nation of Islam\’s annual meeting accused the Jewish community of pushing the United States into war with Libya and Iran. “President Obama, if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Gadhafi, and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves,” Farrakhan said Feb. 27 during an address to the Nation of Islam’s 2011 Saviours’ Day convention in Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago.
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