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As Peggy Bagley reminisced about the life of her husband of 41 years, Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, she described his lifelong efforts to assist others. “If I was driving the car and there was a poor ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, leaders of a Skokie synagogue serving the deaf community hope the online outreach they grew while people were largely stuck at home will translate into funding to ...

Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, who founded a synagogue in Skokie for deaf people and a Hebrew seminary to train rabbis to communicate with them, was buried with the little things he used to give away to ...