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Rabbi Alissa Wise speaks about the role of faith communities in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Additional guests discuss initiatives taken this year by the Presbyterian, Methodist, Quaker, and Episcopal churches and the U.S. responses to the Kairos Palestine document, released by prominent Palestinian Christian leaders calling on churches to adopt BDS.

Band of Sisters follows two sisters and their weekly prayer vigil outside a deportation center in suburban Chicago. It also features sisters who confront the Pope, lobby lawmakers and podcast on the Internet.

New protections for undocumented immigrants, the CTA doesn't give a damn what you think and the mystery behind Southern California's rotten odor is solved.

War journalists report having symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health complications stemming from what they see during their reporting. Rabbi Brant Rosen talks about his public journey to Palestinian solidarity. And, Chicago band Zamin joins Worldview for this week’s installment of Global Notes.

Sixty years later, these structures are among the suburb's finest looking and best-maintained buildings. 

Elmhurst College is a small liberal arts school in the western suburbs of Chicgo. In 2008 the college made history by choosing S. Alan Ray to be president. Ray is a member of the Cherokee Nation. He’s the first Cherokee president of a non-tribal college in the U.S. For Race: Out Loud  we look at how Ray’s heritage is changing Elmhurst College.  

But the leader of more than 2 million Chicago-area Catholics vows to keep working.