From Ohio to Tel Aviv, the most interesting and dazzling shul designs

From the blog of Dan Spiegel at The Times of Israel

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago comes to Glessner House for one night only, to present a theatrical reading, with music, of the play Dear Rhoda, by David Ranney and Donna Russell, adapted by Peter ...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is planning to close its regional archives in San Francisco and Chicago, putting public access to important regional historical records at risk....

Travel back in time to learn about the movie palace – a building type that holds many great memories for people coming of age in the early-mid 20th century. Chicago played a key role in this story as ...

The school will celebrate the milestone Oct. 11 while launching a new initiative focused on educators and affordability.

Since 2020, the artist Jeff Carter has developed an extensive body of work exploring the site, history, and significance of the Singer Pavilion–the last remaining building of the former Michael Reese ...

On the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg verdicts, explore the story of an unexpected inheritance that led one daughter into a hidden chapter of the…

The 1913 painting, “Woman With a Fan”, was one of a number of paintings from the Lewenstein collection to be auctioned in 1940 under unclear circumstances

The Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago is a FREE annual festival that typically offers access to hundreds of sites across Chicago, from iconic locations to under-the-radar architectural ...

The Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago is a FREE annual festival that typically offers access to hundreds of sites across Chicago, from iconic locations to under-the-radar architectural ...

On behalf of the family and staff at the Lohengrin Foundation, we are saddened to announce the death of Peter Max Ascoli on August 9, 2026. Ascoli was a devoted

Nik Jakobs, a cattle farmer in rural Illinois, is building a new synagogue and Holocaust museum using sacred objects rescued from shuttered congregations across America

Robert Libman, the former owner of Libman brooms, has taken on the maintenance and repair of the long-neglected Jewish section at Oak Woods Cemetery, where a half-dozen of his relatives are buried.

The National Archives and Records Administration plans to close its facility in Chicago, prompting opposition from local archivists and lawmakers who say the move could make historical records unavail...

He’s honed his sharp banter as a meat slicer for more than 43 years behind the counter.

CJHS Current Journal IN THIS ISSUE The Jewish Community of Maywood, Illinois Rachel Heimovics Braun: Chicago Jewish History Sleuth The Nation’s Semiquincentennial, from a Jewish Chicago Perspective CJ...

Beyond our print edition, experience Hadassah Magazine in these digital formats: listen with our audio playlist, page through the digital flipbook edition, or read or listen to

Michael Zmora traces the early history of the Jewish communities of Oak Park and River Forest, showing how one of Chicago’s pioneering suburban Jewish communities took shape well before the major post...

He’s honed his sharp banter as a meat slicer for more than 43 years behind the counter.

CJHS Current Journal IN THIS ISSUE The Jewish Community of Maywood, Illinois Rachel Heimovics Braun: Chicago Jewish History Sleuth The Nation’s Semiquincentennial, from a Jewish Chicago Perspective CJ...

The National Archives and Records Administration plans to close its facility in Chicago, prompting opposition from local archivists and lawmakers who say the move could make historical records unavail...

Beyond our print edition, experience Hadassah Magazine in these digital formats: listen with our audio playlist, page through the digital flipbook edition, or read or listen to

Michael Zmora traces the early history of the Jewish communities of Oak Park and River Forest, showing how one of Chicago’s pioneering suburban Jewish communities took shape well before the major post...

Hundreds of people gathered in Skokie on Wednesday for the dedication of a new kosher fridge honoring the life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

Stephen Arthur, a cross-country cyclist from New York City, made a stop in Holland last week as part of a bike ride from Detroit to Chicago as part of a larger project to retrace the steps of his Dutc...

Chicago Shpatz is an experimental theater company created by Chicago artists Matthew Schlerf and Sivan Spector. The word shpatz is a Yiddish pun based on the words shpatzir ("stroll") and shpas ("joke...

The book "1001 Train Rides in Chicago" by Richard Reeder comes out this week on Eckhartz Press. What is it about? Nearly a century has passed since Ben Hecht wrote the last of his 1001

Join WTTW for a screening of and conversation about BLACK AND JEWISH AMERICA: AN INTERWOVEN HISTORY, a new four-part docuseries that explores the complex relationship between Black Americans and Jewis...

Allegra Goodman, the arbiter of Jewish American family tsuris, delivers a complex portrait of complicated people living in a world that they find increasingly inscrutable and impenetrable.