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Chicago Cubs' Matt Mervis celebrates his two-run home run off New York Mets starting pitcher Tylor Megill with third base coach Willie Harris during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Chicago. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
June 15, 2023, 6:19 am
Cubs slugger Mervis hawks Hebrew merch to boost baseball in Israel
Slumping first baseman with a grandma from Givatayim puts M*A*S*H* nickname into Hebrew letters on shirts and caps to raise money for fields in Israel
By Gabe Friedman
Downtown Chicago (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
November 12, 2022, 7:46 pm
False report of antisemitic incident on school bus alarms Chicago Jews
Principal says students got into confrontation with man who boarded school bus after they teased him; Simon Wiesenthal Center quickly propagated claim man gave Nazi salute
By Andrew Lapin
Students at Jones College Prep hold a sit-in to protest their school's reaction to a student's Nazi-esque Halloween costume, Nov. 7, 2022. (Courtesy of Isaac Simon via JTA)
November 9, 2022, 4:23 pm
Chicago Jewish students protest after principal shrugs off Nazi Halloween costume
Teens at one of city’s most selective public high schools call for improved Holocaust education after classmate goose-stepped across stage in a German military uniform
By PHILISSA CRAMER
This photo provided by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows Robert Crimo, III. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of First Degree Murder in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, July 6, 2022. (Lake County Major Crime Task Force via AP)
July 28, 2022, 12:01 am
Highland Park parade attack suspect indicted on 21 counts of murder
Robert E. Crimo hit with 117 felony charges for mass shooting in heavily Jewish area that killed 7
By AP
Linda Straus, widow of Stephen Straus, who was killed Monday in a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park arrives for a funeral service with family members at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, July 8, 2022, in Evanston, Illinois (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
July 8, 2022, 10:55 pm
Mourners say farewell to synagogue staffer, grandfather slain in July 4 shooting
Jacki Sundheim’s daughter tells Chicago North Shore congregants to fill void left by mother’s death with ‘joy, kindness’; art-loving Stephen Straus described as ‘sweet, generous’
By KATHLEEN FOODY and CLAIRE SAVAGE
Rep. Brad Schneider, left, chats with a constituent two days after a mass shooting, in Highland Park, Ill., July 6, 2022. (Twitter via JTA)
July 7, 2022, 4:01 am
‘Shattered in an instant’: Illinois Rep. Schneider describes Highland Park shooting
Jewish Democratic congressman lives in the town where the July 4 massacre occurred, was at the parade and responded to the shooting, says his ‘heart is breaking’ for the families
By Ron Kampeas
This photo provided by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows Robert Crimo, III. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of First Degree Murder in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, July 6, 2022. (Lake County Major Crime Task Force via AP)
July 6, 2022, 9:01 pm
Chicago July 4 shooting suspect confesses, admits contemplating 2nd attack
Court denies Robert E. Crimo III bail; police reveal he was able to obtain a gun license just months after cops were called to his home over threats of violence, suicide
By Michael Tarm, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the US Embassy's Independence Day celebrations on July 5, 2022 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 6, 2022, 6:22 am
At July 4th event, Herzog sends condolences to US after Chicago parade killings
‘Unfortunately, we the people of Israel know too well the reality of happy occasions marred by grief,’ president says at US Embassy celebration
By Tal Schneider
A barricade in place the day after after a mass shooting in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
July 5, 2022, 9:42 pm
7th victim of Chicago shooting dies as police say gunman planned attack for weeks
Investigators: Robert Crimo fired more than 70 rounds toward July 4 parade with legally purchased rifle, killing 7, including at least 1 confirmed member of Jewish community
By Robin LEGRAND
Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, a Chicago suburb on July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
July 5, 2022, 7:40 pm
Israeli consul: As many as 4 Jews may be victims of shooting at Highland Park parade
Yinam Cohen says consulate looking to connect local authorities with Israeli trauma professionals; Israeli witness recalls moment when he realized fireworks were actually gunshots
By Jacob Magid
Robert (Bobby) E. Crimo III. (City of Highland Park Police Department via AP)
July 5, 2022, 12:45 pm
Chabad rabbi says alleged July 4 Chicago shooter entered his synagogue
Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz, whose house of worship is near the site of Monday’s shooting in heavily Jewish Highland Park, says Robert Crimo wore a yarmulke but ‘seemed out of place’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Nicholas Toledo, 78, left, a father of eight and a grandfather, and Jacki Sundheim, right, a North Shore Congregation Israel staffer, who were killed in the shooting attack on an Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022. (Courtesy)
July 5, 2022, 5:50 am
Synagogue staffer, Mexican grandfather among 6 shot dead in Chicago’s Highland Park
North Shore Congregation Israel identifies Jacki Sundheim as one of the victims; Nicholas Toledo, 78, had been visiting family from Mexico; 4 other fatalities yet to be identified
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Robert (Bobby) E. Crimo III. (City of Highland Park Police Department via AP)
July 5, 2022, 2:51 am
Police arrest 22-year-old suspect in Chicago-area parade shooting
Suspect identified as ‘rapper’ Robert E. Crimo III; videos from his now-deleted YouTube channel show him wearing helmet and bulletproof vest inside a classroom
By ToI Staff and Agencies
US law enforcement search in downtown Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
July 4, 2022, 8:14 pm
6 dead, 31 wounded in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade
Suspected gunman arrested, apparently opened fire from a rooftop using rifle later recovered at scene; Foreign Ministry: Jews among casualties; Lapid: Thoughts are with families
By Jacob Magid and AP
Members of the Janes (aka the Service) in 1972. (Courtesy of HBO)
June 7, 2022, 10:03 pm
When a secret group of Chicago women defied the law to provide 11,000 safe abortions
From June 8, the HBO documentary ‘The Janes’ takes viewers back to the pre-Roe v. Wade era, and a little-known underground movement that kept women out of septic wards and morgue
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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