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For decades, Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan Ave., has meant history to me: jazz history. But the history at this 1910 gem of a hotel - part of Marriott's Autograph Collection - runs much deeper than that.
This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this weekâs special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet, though we are knee-deep in our Passover c…