New deli, old dreams
Jake Schneider twirls a new mezuzah between his fingertips as he sits at a wooden table near the front of his deli in Chicago's River North neighborhood. The slim, silver pendant dangling from a chain around his neck is engraved simply with chai-life. Mezuzahs contain rolled-up biblical passages on small pieces of parchment; instead, Schneider has filled his with his own handwritten notes and wears it as a necklace. It's important for him to be recognizably Jewish-even though Schneider, on...
