No one billed it as such, but Jennifer Weiner’s talk at the Champaign Public Library was more comedy club than literary salon.
Being a Jew in C-U: Everything Has Its Season
Saturday night marks the start of the celebration of Purim, a not-as-well-known yet incredibly fun Jewish holiday. It has all the elements of a fun time for a 4-year-old, including dressing up and getting gifts.
Being a Jew in C-U: Jewdar
Living in Champaign-Urbana for – for oh, almost long enough for me to celebrate another bat mitzvah of sorts – has not diminished my Jewdar in the least. In fact, it has strengthened.
Road Trip: Flesor’s Candy Kitchen
Located a hop, skip and jump from the Tanger Outlet Center, Flesor’s Candy Kitchen is a genuine old-fashioned soda shop transported to the present by time machine, courtesy of owners Ann Flesor Beck and Devon Flesor Nau.
Being a Jew in C-U: Happy Sylvester!?
Every year around this time, my husband and I get into a debate. He says: As Jews, we shouldn’t celebrate New Year’s. We’re hooting and hollering over changing the calendar which recognizes time in terms of the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ? I say: It’s totally secular. Tomato, Tomahto.