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The Young Leadership Division of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is committed to building a better Jewish community in Chicago, Israel, and throughout the world. We ...
Led by beloved early childhood teacher and experienced gardener, Liz Zetley, children and caregivers will cultivate a sense of wonder and a love of the natural world in this interactive class for the ...
Using our location tool, explore Jewish early childhood programs, preschools and daycares near you and find the right place for your little one.
The Young Leadership Division of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is committed to building a better Jewish community in Chicago, Israel, and throughout the world. We ...
The real story behind the orange on the seder plate I present you here with the real story of why people put an orange on the Seder plate.
The Center for Jewish Life’s Makom fellows with Rabbi Jennie Bunde (second from the right in the front row) at their mid-year retreat. (The Center for Small Town Jewish Life) Eighteen years ago, Rabbi ...
Jewish stars--the Hollywood kind--lean into their Jewish identities There seems to be a cultural shift of a younger generation of Jewish celebrities proudly leaning into their Jewish identities.
Children from the youth village taking part in horseback riding therapy. I love the haimish feeling I get when I visit the Neve Hanna youth village in the center of Kiryat Gat. The village offers a ...
Award-winning local author Lisa Barr never could have imagined just how "eerily relevant" her fourth book, Goddess of Warsaw , would be today when she began researching it more than two years ago. And ...
Art for the winter with a Jewish twistA music man, a master photographer, and a Chanukah musical Art for the winter with a Jewish twist ...
As a key part of its community-wide security initiative, JUF has named Daniel Godsel as its Security Director. At a time of accelerating antisemitism and attacks against Jewish institutions, he will ...
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known in Hebrew as the Yamim Noraim --the Days of Awe--and during this season, Jews reflect on the previous year and pray for the new year to come. Here are some ways ...