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Afternoon Briefing: Students from Skokie Jewish school headed to Israel

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Ayelet Appel, center, will be going with her school, Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie, to volunteer in Israel. She is with her parents, Seth and Hamutal Appel.
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An executive for the Texas-based owners of the Burger King at the center of the ex-Ald. Ed Burke corruption trial told the jury today he went against his own boss’s instructions to hire Burke’s law firm for property tax work on a “gut feeling” about their competence.

The Burger King scheme was back in the spotlight today as the corruption trial entered a fourth week of testimony. Prosecutors had interrupted their presentation of the Burger King episode after an attorney for one of Burke’s co-defendants, Peter Andrews Jr., fell ill with COVID-19 over the Thanksgiving break.

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Ayelet Appel, center, will be going with her school, Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie, to volunteer in Israel. She is with her parents, Seth and Hamutal Appel.
Ayelet Appel, center, will be going with her school, Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie, to volunteer in Israel. She is with her parents, Seth and Hamutal Appel.

Students from Skokie Jewish school headed to Israel to volunteer in farming sector

About 40 high school seniors at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Skokie will travel to Israel Dec. 17-Jan. 11 to volunteer on farms while the regular workers are away. Read more here.

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