My surrogacy journey
By JILL WOLFE I always dreamed about having two or three children, and practiced writing their names in cursive and ...
Tag: Jewish
Problems arise when you’re Jewish at the Renaissance Faire
By WILHELMINA GOTTSCHALK (JTA) — “To repeat, after you have been knighted by Her Majesty the Queen, you will proceed ...
Meet Iris, the Jewish Icelandic singer with the voice of an actual angel
By JORDANA LIPSITZ (JTA) — I met Iris before her first solo show in the green room at the Bootleg ...
UPDATE: Gateways to fulfilling lives
(Update: Since the Jewish World went to press with its August edition, a lease has been signed for the Gateways ...
HIAS board chair fights anti-immigrant trend
By ADRIAN GLASS-MOORE / Assistant Editor In his day job, attorney Robert Aronson helps medical doctors and academics from abroad ...
The world’s largest seder — in Nepal — will go on
Despite a slow recovery from a 2015 earthquake, as many as 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers could show up for ...
Benny’s dream comes true
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Growing up in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul — the ...
In a land of immigrants
AJW Staff Report In the introduction to From Selfie to Groupie, by Jeff Bliumis and Alina Bliumis, who are also ...
A colorful Jewish hero
Max Baer and the Star of David, by Jay Neugeboren, Mandel Vilar Press paperback, 206 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Chicago’s legendary black newspaper
In 1991, Jewish journalist Ethan Michaeli was hired by The Chicago Defender, the newspaper of the Windy City’s black community. ...
