Belleville News-Democrat Karen Uban, vice president of the United Hebrew Temple in Benton, Illinois stands by the stained glass windows that were damaged by vandals.
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Shortly after U.S. Rep. Mary
Miller of Oakland said in a January speech that “Hitler was right” about youth indoctrination, Illinois Jewish leaders arranged a Zoom call. They hoped to help her understand the pain caused by the comments she delivered on the steps of the
“We wanted to put names and faces to people in the region to be a resource,” said Karen Aroesty, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League’s St. Louis office.
April 15, 2021
OGLESBY – Streator Township High School Supt. Matt Seaton will be appointed Illinois Valley Community College’s Vice President for Business Services and Finance.
The board of trustees will make the appointment at its 5 p.m. Monday, May 3 reorganizational meeting. Seaton will start at IVCC June 17. Current V.P. of Business Services Cheryl Roelfsema will retire July 31 after 13 years in the position.
Corcoran said, “I am very much looking forward to working with Dr. Seaton and know that he will do a great job for the college. His leadership team’s track record for success at Streator Township High School speaks for itself and he will quickly find a talented group of dedicated professionals ready to work with him at IVCC.”
Not a great look for a freshmen Congresswoman to be caught on tape at a rally in the Nationâs Capitol saying âHitler was right.â @Miller Congress
And for those who want to nitpick what she said, let me just stop you right thereâHitler was right on literally nothing. pic.twitter.com/KXbVT8jTr3
â Margot McGowan Staebler (@always margot) January 5, 2021
Shortly after U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Oakland said in a January speech that Hitler was right about youth indoctrination, Illinois Jewish leaders arranged a Zoom call. They hoped to help her understand the pain caused by the comments she delivered on the steps of the United States Capitol, the day before insurrectionists breached the building.
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T FIRST SIGHT, the decision by America’s Food and Drug Administration to pause the roll-out of the covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is a comparable setback to that in Europe over the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab. In both cases the worry is about whether there is a link with blood clots. And in both cases, such clots are extremely rare, meaning that in most circumstances not getting a shot is a far higher risk to health. Yet whereas in Europe the AstraZeneca blow came at a time when countries were struggling to supply vaccines, America is now awash with them.
While working on the 1985 book âHabits of the Heart,â the late sociologist Robert N. Bellah met âSheila,â who described her faith in words that researchers have quoted ever since.
âI canât remember the last time I went to church,â she said. âMy faith has carried me a long way. Itâs Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.â The goal was to âlove yourself and be gentle with yourself . I think God would want us to take care of each other.â
A decade later, during the so-called âNew Ageâ era, researchers described a similar faith approach with this mantra: âspiritual but not religious.â