Below is a comment from a congregant from BYBS Hi Karen, We appreciate your willingness to visit the south suburbs to give us an insight into what it was like growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. It...
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About Karen
Karen L. Kaplan was born and raised in West Rogers Park, a Jewish neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. She received her B.A. from the...
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Rajgród Memorial
Click the button below to download a PDF with information about the installation, desecration and repair of the Rajgrod monument
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Blog
#metoo and yet there is a group of sexual predators that have not been recognized. They are our fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers and close family friends. My father sexually abused my mother and living in my home was traumatic and...
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Karen (Karenkaplan@att.net) shared a post from WGN-TV How a north suburban woman’s emotional trauma led her to forgiveness by Larry Potash A follow-up story: Authorities caught the gunmen who broke into a woman’s house in Deerfield three-years ago and tied up...
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