Well, really its 2 older shuls that are in some way reinventing themselves.
Makom Shalom, formerly in the South Loop, has temporarily relocated to thge Roscoe Village/North Center area at Epiphany Church on Bradley and Damen, a few short blocks from my apartment. Yay, another option!
Then it seems there’s a new group operating out of the [...]
BZ reports that the at last week’s URJ (Reform) affiliated CCAR convention, two Chicago reform Rabbis were named to the top of the bill. He called it a “Windy City Sweep.” Yeah right, and this could be the year for the Cubs AND the Sox… One must wonder if the attendees also [...]
I’m a big fan of Rabbi Elliott Cosgrove. I think he’s the Conservative movement’s slightly more bookish answer to Brarak Obama, a rising star with a sharp intellect, understanding of the issues, a great speaker and communicator and as the ladies are fond of saying, easy on the eyes.
The Assistant Rabbi at Anshe Emet, R. [...]
“Sometimes a family is not so pious, does not want a mechitza, and prefers that everyone sit together at one table. This is not something to fight over. If a mechitzah is possible, then it should be erected, but if it is not, it can be done away with.” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual mentor [...]
Peli, recognized by many as the mother of Orthodox feminism, died in Yerushalayim yesterday morning at age 74. Born in New York, she made aliyah in the early 70s with her husband, Rabbi Pinchas Peli, and began a women’s minyan in her home using her own Torah scroll which led to the establishment of Congregation [...]
Synablog highlights a speech Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR given at UCLA Hillel as part of Los Angeles’s People of the Book Festival in late April of this year that makes some concise, bold statements that ring so very truly.
“It seems to me that our community has made some real miscalculations in addressing the growing [...]
Friday I learned that the Moshav Band, of whom I am a fan and proponent, will not likely be coming to Chicago this summer. I’m publicly stating my dissappointment, but hopefully we’ll see them in Chicago under the KFAR banner sometime next year. Since we’re on the Carlebach topic, I’ve noticed I’m less [...]
