Chicago

Anti-Semitic fliers found on U of Illinois at Chicago campus for second time

The fliers discovered on Saturday denied the Holocaust, accused Jews of receiving preferential treatment at U.S. universities and compared the Gaza Strip to Auschwitz. It was the second time such fliers had been placed on the campus in a week.

Chicago synagogue vandalized in suspected hate crime

A large plate-glass window was smashed in and pictures of swastikas were taped to the synagogue door.

The Black Newspaper That Championed Jewish Hair

The Chicago Defender comes out of the South Side (here’s looking at you, Michelle Lavaughn Obama) and focuses on the city’s African-American population. But it also has a surprising history of covering the local Jewish community. Going back as far as 1910, a black arts critic visited a Yiddish theater in Chicago and praised the […]