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Tensions are high at Oak Park and River Forest High School, reflecting global strife over the war in Gaza, as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students and parents report unfair treatment, bullying, harassment and feeling unsafe at school.The school, for example, has received 16 formal complaints since Oct. 7, but eight were anonymous complaints and therefore not investigated, officials said. Five complaints were determined to have already been dealt with. Of the three remaining complaints that were...

Join us for our first Wednesday open captioned (OCAP) matinee of the season: “The Holiday” - (2006; PG13 - 2 hours, 16 minutes) - Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes over Christmas/Hanukkah holidays...

Not that writing a chess column qualifies as hazardous journalism, but sometimes trying to keep up with the news from the wide world of chess can be like trying to drink from the proverbial firehose.

Jewish and Muslim people across Oak Park are decrying the horror of the Israel-Gaza war, with some calling for action, others praying for peace and many mourning the loss of loved ones in the conflict. The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine and Jewish Voice For Peace have joined together to call on Congress and President Joe Biden to build a foreign policy designed to end violence and to stop backing Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory. Both organizations have a ...

In a demonstration of unity and a call for peace in the Middle East, Pastor Ira Acree of the Greater Saint John Bible Church stood alongside Rabbi Max Weiss of Oak Park Temple during a prayer service held on Tuesday.

Book Club: Women in Translation Month is an international, intersectional initiative based around women having their voices heard. To celebrate this month, The New Arab has compiled a list of our favourite translations from Arabic to English.

Cantor Julie Yugend-Green was the first member of the Oak Park Temple B'nai Abraham Zion (OPT) to see the Holocaust Torah Scroll, which was transferred to the care of the Oak Park synagogue last month by the Memorial Scroll Trust in London, UK.“The first time I opened it,” she recalled, “I saw how beautiful it was, and I thought about how many hundreds if not thousands of people have chanted and told stories from it. I felt those voices. I felt the history.”

The technology is here, whether we want it or not.

Graduating members of the Tri-Service Brigade received commissions to begin their military service – including the brigade’s first commission into the U.S. Space Force – at a May 26 ceremony in Statler Auditorium.

Jim Strietelmeier, who co-founded the Compassion Clinic on the east side of Indianapolis, died due to complications from cancer on May 7, 2023.