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During World War II, Avshi Weinstein’s grandfather, Moshe, immigrated from the Jewish Ghetto in Vilna, Poland (what is now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Palestine. He had completed his studies at the Conservatory of Vilna and went to Palestine looking to find work as a musician. But at the time there was an abundance of qualified violinists,

Twenty years ago, Barbara Paget had an idea. The Highland Park resident, long a volunteer in the cancer unit at Highland Park Hospital (there’s a plaque acknowledging her role in creating the Arthur G. Michel Education and Research Fund at what is now NorthShore University HealthSystem), established Cancer Survivor Beauty and Support Day to provide

It’s fitting that there are currently 65 horses at the Tempel Farms in Old Mill Creek, just northwest of Gurnee. Some are retired, some are performing, and some are or will be in training. They’ll all be celebrating the farm’s 65th anniversary this summer. Lipizzaners, or Lipizzans, are one of the oldest breeds of horses

In 1945, a diary was found in the ashes of a destroyed crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl named Rywka Lipszyc and documented her life in the Łódz Ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944. The diary is at the center of a new exhibition, “The Girl in the Diary:

For Winnetka resident KIM MELANCON, supporting Willow House is personal. After unexpectedly losing her 2-year-old son in 2003, she was looking for ways to support herself and her then 5-year-old daughter, Rachel. Thankfully, she found Willow House, a local nonprofit organization that provides no-cost bereavement services for children, teens, young adults, and parents who have