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By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — When Democrats descend on Chicago tonight (Aug. 19) to nominate Kamala Harris, the party will be unified on much, but riven by a major issue that has also preoccupied American Jews for 10 months: Israel’s … Read More
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Hamas has freed two women, ages 79 and 85, whom it was holding hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports. The release of Nurit Yitzhak and Yocheved Lifshitz comes after the terror group released … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate and son of Holocaust survivors who led a tumultuous leveraged buyout that bankrupted the Tribune media company in the early 2000s, died Thursday. He was 81. Before buying the … Read More
Forty-four seniors from the Louisville J visited Chicago from June 19-23. The Garfield Conservatory, 360 Chicago, the John Hancock Building, the Museum of Science & Industry and the Field Museum of Natural History were among the attractions they toured. The … Read More
Warm your heart, and your soul with the perfect family musical, “Oliver!,” presented by CenterStage and Physician’s Center for Beauty October 22-November 8. Based on Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist, “Oliver!” tells the story of a young orphan boy who … Read More
How in the round world can you review a modern classic of a musical like Chicago, which has been done (literally) to death? Well, let’s start by comparing it to another musical that CenterStage will perform later on in its … Read More
How in the round world can you review a modern classic of a musical like Chicago, which has been done (literally) to death? Well, let’s start by comparing it to another musical that CenterStage will perform later on in its … Read More
(See full photo gallery of event at end of article) With champagne, birthday cake, drinks and some outstanding performances, CenterStage, the oldest continuously operating theatre in Kentucky, kicked off its 100th season with a night to remember. Some 300 attendees … Read More
CenterStage at the JCC and Hilliard Lyons present the Broadway hit musical Chicago, a titillating story of murder, greed and corruption, September 4-20, in the Linker Auditorium. Set in the Roaring 20’s, the musical is based on a play of … Read More
Every spring, many of us retell the story of the Exodus in our homes during Passover Seder. We include in the telling the ceremony of the 12 plagues in Egypt where we dip our fingers into the wine and recite … Read More