Seth Lavin

A Palestinian man covered in dust holds the hand of a weeping child following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 17, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were on Oct. 17, headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 1686

Israel’s response to Hamas attack is vengeance, not strategy

We Jewish Americans cannot stand with Israel when what Israel does is not right. Pulverizing Gaza, which is smaller than Chicago, is an escalation that will devastate the Palestinian people.

By Seth Lavin

Karen Malave, left, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, sits with her daughter, Avril Brandelli, on her lap and they smile as another child runs past them at the 16th District police station in May.

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My ancestors fled pogroms. Chicago let them in and must do the same for migrants.

As the asylum-seeker crisis drags on, opposition voices are becoming louder. We have to be loud, too, a Chicago principal writes as he reflects on Yom Kippur.

By Seth Lavin

For gender expression, it has to be students who decide who knows what and when about how they identify.

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No room for backlash on protecting trans, nonbinary students

The real story is not parents’ rights versus student privacy. It is transphobia versus trans existence.

By Seth Lavin

Vigil Held Following Hospitalization of Buffalo Bills Player Damar Hamlin

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Football is dangerous. That won’t change unless fans insist on it.

It’s our money, every dollar, that makes the owners rich. It is us that puts these men on the field, that asks them to make their bodies bigger, to hit each other harder. If the game does not change, we have to stop watching.

By Seth Lavin