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Competition tight in HP City Council race BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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n the April election Laura Saret, Davis Schneiderman and Adam Stolberg will compete to fill former Councilman Paul Frank’s two-year seat on the Highland Park City Council. Concurrently, three City Council members whose terms expire in April are running for re-election facing a new challenger, Stan Lester, who will attempt to unseat one of them from serving another four-year term. DailyNorthShore.com asked the candidates what makes them a good fit for City Council, and the incumbents why they should be re-elected. Laura Saret has publicly called for the resignation of the D-112 Board of Education, but she has chosen to run for City Council instead of the school board. Saret said she thinks there are some very good people running for the school board and believes her “background, experience, and interest lends itself to the work that the City Council does.” Continued on PG 9
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fter working as a cantor for 36 years, Nancy Diamond Landsman recently was ordained as a rabbi. And in addition to being the spiritual leader of her congregation, she has found an important niche to fill: she makes house calls, even to people who don’t belong to her — or any — synagogue. “I realized that … people long for this rabbinic connection and I thought why don’t I just come to them?” said Rabbi-Cantor Landsman, spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavat Olam. “As people are getting older and close to dying they want rabbis who will know them and officiate at their funeral.” Rabbi-Cantor Landsman explained that there are more people who choose not to belong to a congregation for various reasons, and with age it becomes even more difficult. “There are so many lonely people - especially the elderly,” she said. “They have no family in town or don’t have much of a relationship with them and it breaks your heart.” Rabbi-Cantor Landsman
Rabbi-Cantor Nancy Diamond Landsman meets with Bert Rose, 92, a musician who attended Am Shalom in Glencoe, where Landsman was a cantor before moving to Congregation Ahavat Olam. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
volunteers for hospice care and is on call at two hospitals. One day she received a call from the hospital asking if she’d visit a
patient who was having hospice a synagogue. care brought into his room. The “That’s when a light bulb went patient requested a rabbi, off, because the patient was able because he wasn’t affiliated with to share his whole life story with
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me and a week later he died,” said Rabbi-Cantor Landsman. Continued on PG 10
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