The work of our congregation and our members is regularly mentioned in the media. If your work with KAM Isaiah Israel has been featured in the news, please let us know!
04/03/12: Robert Nevel, in partnership with Barbara Lerman-Golomb, co-led a URJ Webinar titled "Planting to Pe'ah: Starting a Food-Producing Garden at Your Congregation," You can read a recap of the webinar here, and listen to the full recording at the Union for Reform Judaism's Webinar Archive.
01/10/12: KAMII Social Justice Chair Robert Nevel paid another visit to WCPT's Mike Nowak Show on 820 AM to promote our 3rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Weekend. This time, Robert and Mike are joined by the University of Chicago Medical Center's Doriane C. Miller, whose presentation is the first installment of the Social Justice Weekend. Learn more about his time on the show, and listen to the full broadcast here.
12/19/11: Art Smith, famous Hyde Park-Kenwood resident, was recently asked by Time Out Chicago to list his favorite neighborhood spots. Not surprisingly, a number of area restaurants and markets made the cut, but so did a certain historic synagogue. Said Smith:
Gaze at President Obama’s residence, but the real beauty is across the street at KAM Isaiah Israel temple. This Byzantine structure is one of the great synagogues of Chicago.
12/14/11: Social Justice Committee Chair Robert Nevel was invited to speak at a workshop at the URJ Biennial addressing the issues within the Jewish food justice movement. Link
11/14/11: The City of Chicago's Department of Environment sent our Social Justice Committee the following letter:
Congratulations! Your garden has been awarded 1st Place in the Vegetable Garden - City Wide category of the 55th Annual Mayor's Landscape Awards program. The effort you have given through tending your landscape represents a significant commitment to your neighborhood and the whole city. Gardens and other green spaces help improve air quality, utilize rainwater and make Chicago a beautiful place to live.
Congratulations again on this great achievement! We thank you for being part of Chicago's effort to be the greenest city in the nation.
A list of the winners of this year's Mayor's Landscape Awards can be found here.
09/02/11: Our garden is declared "Chicago's Garden of Eden" on the front page of The Chicago Jewish News. A profile of our Social Justice efforts--and how Committee Chair Robert Nevel brought the project to fruition--follows. Link
07/07/11: Robert Nevel was given a page to discuss our Fain Award-winning food justice program in the Mitzvah Musings newsletter published by the URJ Central District Social Action Committee. Nevel's article is on page 4, and page 5 features some of the great work taking place in other Fain Award-winning congregations. You can download the newsletter by clicking here.
06/30/11: Sue Fishkoff, writing for the JTA news service, commends several synagogues, including KAMII, for going "beyond canned food drives," launching community gardens to raise food for the needy. Link
04/21/11: KAM Isaiah Israel member Kineret Jaffe introduces our Food Justice and Sustainability Youth Leadership Summer Camp as part of RJ.org's "Spotlight on Greening Reform Judaism" series. Link
04/14/11: Cantor Miriam Eskenasy was interviewed by Allison Cuddy on Eight Forty-Eight on WBEZ about her life story and her work as a Cantor. You can read the accompanying article, listen to the podcast of Cantor Miriam's appearance, and download a copy of the podcast here.
04/03/11: KAMII Social Justice Chair Robert Nevel was interviewed again on WCPT's Mike Nowak Show on 820 AM. Robert comes on around the 18 minute mark, and discusses his great work in our synagogue garden and the Fain Award we have recently received. Learn more about his time on the show, and listen to the full broadcast here. Robert's previous visits to Nowak's show are July 3, 2011, August 1, 2010 (along with KAMII member Gloria Needlman), and January 10, 2010.
03/07/11: Weinstein Weekend '11 speaker Gidon Bromberg and KAMII member Rachel Havrelock discuss Middle Eastern water issues in Forward magazine: Link
01/19/11: KAMII's Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Weekend was visited by Jennifer Wholey of Medill News Service: Link
