Yvette Alt Miller, Author at JMORE

Bryan Gryka, the chef and general manager of Milt's Barbeque for the Perplexed, will now be a controlling owner of the kosher restaurant. (Courtesy of Gryka, via JTA)

Employees Become Owners at Chicago’s Beloved Kosher Barbecue Restaurant

January 24, 2020 Yvette Alt Miller

A group of longtime employees is taking ownership of Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed, a popular kosher restaurant in Chicago that has been donating its profits to support local charities for seven years.

J.K. Rowling at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) at Royal Albert Hall in London, Feb. 12, 2017. (John Phillips/Getty Images)

In J.K. Rowling’s New Novel, a Villain is an Israel-Hating Anti-Semite

September 22, 2018 Yvette Alt Miller

“Lethal White,” the 4th in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike mystery series, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, features a pair of hard-left political activists who believe “Zionists” are evil and have a stranglehold on Western governments.

A view inside the kosher Hy Life Bistro, which has become a neighborhood landmark in suburban Chicago. (Hy Life Bistro/Facebook)

New Flavors and Fresh Ideas Raise Hopes for a Revival of Chicago Area’s Kosher Restaurant Scene

July 13, 2018 Yvette Alt Miller

Two established Chicago-area kosher restaurants show the challenge of offering fine kosher dining outside of huge kosher markets like New York and Los Angeles. Slice of Life and Hy Life Bistro — twin dairy and meat restaurants side by side — are the brainchild of Sheldon Kane.

Sandor and Margit Kirsche in 1947.

It’s the End of an Era for America’s 1st All-Kosher Supermarket

April 11, 2018 Yvette Alt Miller

Holocaust survivor Sandor Kirsche trademarked the slogan “All kosher, only kosher,” and since 1973 it has applied to the forward-looking kosher supermarket he founded, Hungarian Kosher Foods, under the supervision of the Chicago Rabbinical Council.