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Check out this year's 12th annual Double Chai in the Chi: Chicago's Jewish 36 Under 36 list of talented, difference-making Jewish young adults in our city, presented by YLD and Jewish Chicago: The JUF ...
"Join our jBaby and PJ Library 5k Team as we complete the Lambs Farm 5k Run or 2 Mile Walk on June 8th! This family friendly (strollers allowed!) 5k/2 Mile Walk race is a great way to meet families in ...
Want to honor this person? Make a donation to JUF in recognition of this 36 Under 36 honoree. This year, thanks to The Hineini Initiative, all 36 Under 36 donations will be matched⁠—doubling your ...
From left: Adam Goldfeder, Faye Levinson, and Josh Goldfeder on graduation day. It is not unusual for grandparents to kvell when their grandchildren reach rites of passage-birthdays, b'nai mitzvot, ...
Sima Blue, longtime chair of the JUF Evelyn R. Greene Legal Services Clinic, will retire July 1. Years after matching her clients up with pro-bono legal counsel, Sima Blue still gets calls of ...
You don't see a mezuzah on the door of Sheriff Gary Cooper's jail in High Noon, Joe Starrett's family shouting, "Come back, Shane-for Shabbat dinner," or the Lone Ranger attending "High-ho Silver" ...
The “Jew-Fro”/ By J. Kott-Wolle/Oil on Canvas, 14 x 18, painted 2019. Original photo taken in 1975 There is no moment too small or too large in contemporary Jewish life for Jacqueline Kott-Wolle to ...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will premiere at the Lyric Opera House on June 5. (Photo credit: Todd Rosenberg) What often comes to mind for the opening of my columns is a quote from a great Rogers ...
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke speaking at the summit. (Photo credit: Zoe Lewis Nielsen.) JUF's first-ever Communal Summit on Addressing Antisemitism was convened on May 12. Drawing ...