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I love setting the Passover table. Each item on the table has such meaning, and I'm not just talking about the matzoh and the shankbone. I'm talking about the pot that I'm pouring the chicken soup ...

(From left) Robert Morris, George Washington, and Haym Salomon, memorialized in the Three Patriots statue at Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue. On the corner of Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue stands an ...

Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen, center, met with the author, right, and Steven Dishler, assistant vice president of JUF’s Jewish Community Relations Council, in April at Gulen’s residence in ...

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