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Former hostage recalls his ordeal
Children at Jewish schools in the United States sing "David Melech Yisrael," with its...
On Sunday, Oct. 21 the Chicago Coalition to Save Darfur, of which the Jewish Community Relations...
There’s nothing like experiencing a bombing to convince you that Sderot is a dangerous place.
Jewish 20-something strives to find love and fame on YouTube reality show
Bryan Schwartzman The blogosphere, MySpace, YouTube. As the World Wide Web continues to evolve at...
On Nov. 2-4, an art exhibit of 135 Israeli and Palestinian painters, sculptors, designers, and...
Remarks by Steven B. Nasatir at Annual Meeting
Jewish teens tune in to positive hour of broadcasting on the ‘Midwest NCSY Radio Hour’
Jewish life on campus is the topic of this edition of Sanctuary.
Documentary film chronicles one family’s rescue by a non-Jewish German family, teaches the German...
Experts speak to the community about the forces for change and the drive for power in Iran.
The first of its kind – offers the field a comprehensive profile of Jewish day school principals.
25 diplomats gather at Jewish Federation to hear from Schakowsky, Kirk
The upsurge in violence, which led to the deaths of two Israelis this month, is expected to result...
Aliyah Day honors Israel’s 60th anniversary, in a project coordinated by the Jewish Agency and the...
The following is a chronology of the top news items of the past year.
Chelsea put her own spin on a Blumenthal family bat mitzvah tradition. Inspired by her older...
It's been 40 years since it made much sense to put candles on my birthday cake. Eleven candles 10...
It is right and important that we gather in this way at today's rally, convened by Governor Ryan...
A century of caring and progress for Chicago's Jewish community
Fostering Religious Life, Spiritual Heritage for Chicago’s Jews
Creative growth to match the pace of community needs
Chicago’s Jewish community reaches out to the public world
Chicago Jews create health care for entire community
Nina Genn's exodus from Russia was the culmination of an odyssey spanning two...
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First permanent Jewish settlers arrive in...
With the end of the century falling on a Shabbat, members of the Chicago Jewish community will be...
As you light the menorah on the first night of Chanukah--the holiday of freedom, justice,...
Moved after visits to Holocaust sites, Mayor Daley calls for more history education
The following journal entry is written by Caroline Brennan, the JUF correspondent for the Jewish...
The following journal entry is written by Caroline Brennan, the JUF correspondent for the Jewish...
The following journal entry is written by Caroline Brennan, the JUF correspondent for the Jewish...
Caroline Brennan JUF correspondent for the Jewish Federation's Centennial Mission The following...
Caroline Brennan JUF correspondent for the Jewish Federation's Centennial Mission The following...
It is not everyday that one can say, "I've just returned from jeeping through the Golan Heights...
Tonight at the strike of midnight, most of our festive, warm and enthusiastic mission travelers...
I'm old enough now to wax nostalgic about the first time I grasped that someday I would be old...
Whoever said "may you live in interesting times" has got their wish. This is an interesting, odd,...
I used to live in Los Angeles. After 10 years as a Hollywood screenwriter, I became addicted to...
Advocacy efforts have an impact on the course of politics and governmental decisions. Politicians...
David Sherman Campaign Chairman Of all the symbols of the Jewish people, one of the oldest...
Sarah Sechan In late February I had the opportunity to wake up at the crack of dawn and...
Legions of Israel's supporters, in this unsettling season, recognize too well the exotic name of...
This will not be my last time lobbying on Capital Hill, and I hope that my experience encouragers...
As a freshman I lived just a mile away from school. It seemed sensible to walk to school every...
We Jews are often referred to as “the People of the Book.” It is a book we have treasured, and...
We Jews are often referred to as “the People of the Book.” It is a book we have treasured, and...
Taking a year off changed her life.
Hockey puck, slider, spud muffin, grease sponge, glue glob… oh the shame of a latke gone wrong....
A visit to Washington and the White House during Chanukah gave our family a profound, teachable...
AHA Write On for Israel students reflect on Israel Jamie Ehrenpreis When I first received the “Aha...
Dear Colleagues and Friends, In a nutshell, a short time ago the sheriff's department...
After 92 years of life, Tessie Luck passed away on April 4, 2007, in Milwaukee, Wisc. Her...
Connecting college students to worldly issues
Those who care deeply about Israel have something new to worry about al-Jazeera in English. The...
Hysteria gets you nowhere. You go by logic. You have a threat and you determine how to counter it.
Sixty years ago exactly, on the cold night of Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941, the Nazis rounded up...
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, it is important to...
Aaron Cohen links the UN Durban conference to the attacks on America.
Jewish American poet best known for the poem “New Colossus,” which appears on the base of the...
May 4, 2008 is a very important day. It is Israel Solidarity Day celebrating 60 years of the State...
Big news in Israel this fall, as days grow shorter and skies cloudier, is the possible inclusion...
Results of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago's 2000-2001 Population Study Census...
Baseball is making aliyah. America’s favorite pastime is coming to Israel, as the inaugural season...
A merged shul in Fair Lawn, NJ donates two Torahs to needy Masorti congregations in Israel and...
Chag kasher v’sameach, may your holiday be pure happiness.
After World War II, and the destruction of European Jewry, many survivors looked for a place to...
Aaron B. Cohen Executive Editor Rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum join JUF's fifth Rabbinic...
Assemble 5,000 Jews under one roof and you get a lot of talking. For the people attending the...
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Aaron B. Cohen
Executive Editor
Gorgeous is a word Chana...
Voice of the People letter to the Chicago Tribune by Steven B. Nasatir, President, Jewish United...
Mohammad Salah For the last three-and-a-half months, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)...
Travel writing at its best plucks you from your immediate reality and plunks you down in another...
Part I, Arrival By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Installment One July 29 30, 2001 Our El Al...
Part II Tel Aviv anecdotes By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Monday July 30, 2001 Rachel...
Part III Zionism is not racism and other words of wisdom By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor...
Part IV Murky crystal ball By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Wednesday, August 1,
Part IX Jerusalem bombing By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Deep questions for American Jews...
Part V The sound of music By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Friday, August 3, 2001 An interlude...
Part VI Between light and darkness By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Sunday, August 5, 2001...
Part VII A Poem for Jerusalem By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Monday August 6, 2001 Silence
Part VIII Where have all the opinions gone? By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Jerusalem musing...
Sandy Thorn Clark When Bea Kraus and Norman D. Schwartz combine talents in an effort to preserve...
Let it never be said that all we do here in the Holy Land is stay home and worry.
Two strange Central Asian figures have been weighing on my wary mind at the New Year: Ahmadinejad...
To borrow the famous World War I Army recruiting slogan, your "Cousin Ruth wants YOU!" She wants...
Chicago, IL, March 14, 2007 – Anti-Semitic incidents in Illinois nearly doubled in 2006 but...
Participants look forward to attending the event each month.
Write On For Israel Rebecca Strauss Lying on the edge of an old Hasidic neighborhood and along the...
A partnership of community organizations and churches are co-hosting a performance of The...
Milestones in and of themselves have little meaning. What they do is offer opportunities to take...
Israel and its allies say they want Ahmadinejad arrested when he arrives in New York
This article first appeared in the October, 2001 issue of JUF NewsLike myriad Jews the world over,...
When author Alex Kotlowitz envisioned a book chronicling the true story of two African-American...
West Rogers Park restaurateur offers freshness, expertise and expanding services
It's no secret that Israel that is undergoing a crisis of leadership. The army's chief of staff...
Ten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students, three Northwestern students, and one...
For some students, school breaks mean lying on the beach at a tropical vacation hotspot. For...
The meeting was held Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
A growing number of Jewish communities have started to address the issue of preparedness because a...
In early August, American Jewish journalists visited Israel to see the regions besieged by...
How or where this experience would happen I had no idea, but I was confident that sooner or later...
Only the curious have something to find.
About ten kilometers west of Jerusalem is the beautiful landscaped national park of Ein Hemed...
With almost two weeks of traveling, lecturing, hiking, learning, and discussing behind us, we...
Sometime during the Days of Awe I got word that a dear high school friend had succumbed to cancer....
As we approach the holidays of Passover and Shavuot that speak of our transition into a Community,...
The first individual in JUF’s history to succeed both his father and his mother in heading the JUF...
Statman to perform selctions from his two new releases: Awakening from Above and East Flatbush Blues
In a year wracked by war in Israel and growing social need in Chicago and Jewish communities...
ABRAMS, VIRGINIA Z. (nee ZISSMAN). March 2. Age 85. Wife of Burton R. Mother of Richard Abrams and...
ALTMAN, ROSE (nee KANE). Feb. 18. Age 89. Wife of the late Charles. Mother of Dr. Arthur (Susan)...
AFTERMAN, TILLIE (nee BLOCK). Feb. 19. Wife of the late David and the late Harold Romanoff....
Obituaries ALEX, EDITH (nee EDELSTEIN). Wife of the late Arthur. Mother of Steven (Judy), Paul...
The moment of truth for Yassir Arafat precipitated by America's declaration of war against...
Archeologists are begging international journalists to report on Palestinian digging and building...
What International Law Really Says
This column is dedicated to every Israeli bus driver and passenger, be they Jews or Arabs,...
Rabbinic Action Committee hears from JTS Chancellor Arnold Eisen and JUF President Steven B....
Jerusalem, June 18, 2006—Visiting Israel you feel the wheel of history turn beneath your feet....
The 13th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Project, is sponsored by Holland & Knight Charitable...
Top lay and professional leaders of Chicago's Jewish community share their ideas about the big...
Spending a weekend with Israeli families in Rishon LeTzion exposed last summer's Write On fellows...
For more than a century, whenever the Jewish people have confronted an historic challenge, our...
JUF News regrets that because of a printing error, two obituaries appeared as one in the July...
Obituaries CORRECTION (in box) In the July issue of JUF News, one of the deceased, ANNE...
Obituaries
ABRAMOWICZ, ESTHER
(nee PLONSKI). June 9. Age 85. Wife of the...
Reading and adhering to the mother of all books, the most influential bestsellers of all times—the...
“The American Jewish community should deliver a very, very solid message of solidarity with the...
Torah Commentary Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko The JUF News with this essay reaches you in the middle of...
JUF News reporter heads back to the eighth grade at three Chicago-area Jewish day schools
It’s good to go back in time, if only to remain firmly rooted, eyes wide open, in the present.
The bat mitzvah herself wants the band to play Justin Timberlake. Her parents, however, do not...
Some phone calls are gut wrenching. The call I made to Haim Avraham on Wednesday, November 7 was...
Despite Lukashenko's anti-Semitic slurs against the city of Bobruisk and Israel, the prevailing...
Indian Jewish traditions remain strong despite an unknown past.
“Reflections on Jewish-Catholic Relations: Past, Present and Future,”
Winnetka resident tells the tale of her family’s immigration from Ukraine to North America
Mosul, the second-largest city in modern Iraq, is built on the ruins of Nineveh, storied capital...
Abigail Pickus grew up surrounded by books.
Her family members were all voracious readers and her...
Sarah Bakst, a sophomore at University of Dayton, joined ROTC to serve her country--and get a free...
In New Jersey, observant Jews are harvesting a wetlands pest to cover their holiday sukkot.
Hear the latest podcasts of Chicago and Israeli young people together on a Birthright Israel trip.
We are coming to the end of the Book of Vayikra-Leviticus. This, the third book of the Torah, has...
Torah Commentary Rabbi Yehiel Poupko We are about to conclude the annual reading of the Book of...
Each of the five books of the Torah can be divided into three sections. The three sections of the...
Retiring after 30 years as superintendent of Associated Talmud Torahs and nearly 20 years as...
Micky Cobrin might be the speediest person to make aliyah in a long time.
A grant from the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago helps immigrants assimilate and...
This morning I awoke to a wonderful new world, a world without anti-Semitism. Overnight, the...
The Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers focus our thinking on the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, and...
A weeklong service-oriented day camp for Jewish teens entering grades eight through 10.
Almost every campus in The Hillels of Illinois system had or has something special planned.
Michael C. Kotzin Executive Vice President, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago ...
A few weeks ago I had occasion to spend some time at Jerusalem's Bikur Cholim hospital, visiting...
As Israel celebrates its 58th birthday, The Jerusalem Post's former editor Carl Schrag offers up...
It's not going to be easy for the next prime minister. Iranian nukes are a fast-happening...
On the first Thursday evening in March, there was great celebration in Gaza.
Study finds association between heavy cell phone use and tumors.
The shocking desecration of gravestones at Westlawn Jewish Cemetery with swastikas and neo-Nazi...
How 'The Romance of A People' brought 125,000 people to Soldier Field for the last pre-World War...
Bill Rubin may not be a household name in Chicago's Jewish community, but as the executive...
Chicago Jewish educators find week of challenge, inspiration in Israel
We wish all our visitors a happy Simchat Torah holiday!
In honor the Sukkot holiday, the Federation offices will be closed September 27-28 and...
Though she served as the executive director of the Midwest region of the United Synagogue of...
Students from campuses across the Chicagoland area were asked to combine their artistic talents...
The menorah (the seven branch candelabrum) which stands opposite the Knesset gates in Jerusalem...
Unveil the riches of the a cappella Jewish tradition.
“What I Wish They Would Have Taught Me in Sunday School About Science, the Bible and God,” (Grace...
Walk with Israel and Gala attract some 20,000 to show solidarity
The Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders is pleased to announce the expansion of its...
"Hana's Suitcase" depicts what happens when Japanese students and their teacher.
“How much would you be willing to pay to hear your friend, Sherri, say a Hebrew tongue-twister...
Cindy Sher Staff Writer Shown from left: Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits, Fern Steinfeld, Miles Lerman,...
For the past 20 years, HaRav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, shlit” has served as the Av Beth Din for the...
Thousands unite against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
With focus on relationships and her Jewish background, author of ‘Spinster Sisters’ says don’t...
A terrorist attack. A lone gunman. A massive snowstorm. A major fire. Devastation half a...
Two Chicago-area Hillels will receive grants from the Covenant Foundation to help fund innovative...
A group of 25 Chicago-area rabbis currently are participating in the 2008 JUF Rabbinic Mission to...
CJHS plans to hold a community-wide celebration on Sunday, Sept. 30, in honor of the school’s...
A new documentary, “My Kid Could Paint That,” by Amir Bar-Lev.
Up till one year ago, eight-year-old T. was a happy child who loved to laugh and play soccer with...
Carlin, a partner with the internationally known law firm of DrinkerBiddleGardnerCarton, served...
Online assistance for families
Citing Federation community as a model, Bill Clinton—the private citizen—says we have the power to...
Dr. Rick Hodes, medical director in Ethiopia for the UJC/Federation-supported American Jewish...
Many college students head south during spring break. So when Sarah Mayhan, Lila Miller, and Max...
While American students go about their lives, alarming numbers of Africans are murdered one by one.
Loaded up with Oreo cookies, assorted candies, chips, cheese sandwiches, chewing gum, and...
Walk, Gala, Celebrities, Superstars Highlight Anniversary Festivities.
At a Manhattan party one night, Jewish comedian Judy Gold mentioned to her friend Kate Moira Ryan...
If you get frustrated after a few hours on a crowded plane, or in a long airport security line,...
This issue of the JUF News arrives in your homes during the transition from the first book of the...
Cindy Sher Associate Managing Editor Young people at the Jewish People’s Institute complete a map...
One thing Jewish and Greek organizations have in common is the sense of community they provide to...
‘Eich naflu giborim—How the mighty have fallen’
Cosponsor the Bipartisan Iran Working Group Resolution Calling on Iran to Release Two Prominent...
25 diplomats gather at Jewish Federation to hear from Schakowsky, Kirk
BZAEDS celebrates 60 years as independent Jewish day school
“We are in a deteriorating situation, he said. “The question of course is why now.”
Sixty years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, senior diplomats...
Senator Jeff Schoenberg (left) and Asst. House Majority Leader Rep. Lou Lang (right), co sponsors...
The huge, borrowed 36-cup tin coffee pot had already been plugged in, bubbling out its old...
Controversial conference held.
Sukkot never became associated with specific dishes
When Zack Harris heard about the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan, he knew he had to take...
His genius transformed the art of arts marketing.
As we recall the bitterness of our ancestors enslaved in Egypt, and their ultimate redemption by...
David Sherman, chairman of the Chicago-based real estate firm of Benj. E. Sherman & Sons, has been...
Partnership of educational organizations strategizes on leadership 'crisis'
Despite all the matzah balls, matza brei, matza pizza, and just about every other iteration of the...
I have the responsibility to advocate for my Jewish community, Israel, our world, and all of the...
A major innovation in funding Chicago's cash-strapped Jewish day schools has been extended through...
Successful approach to Jewish day school funding has prompted a deadline extension to strengthen...
Self-mocking message bad for the Jews and for our Jewish children
ALTMAN, IDA Oct. 21. Sister of Lillian (the late David) Courtheoux and the late David and the late...
ADLER, BURTON Oct. 15. Son of the late Anna and Morris. Brother of the late Arthur and Jerome....
Obituaries CORRECTION -- The death notice for Shirley Zusel that appeared in the December issue of...
Obituaries ADELMAN, SARAH (nee LEAVITT). Age 89. Wife of the late Hyman. Mother of Steven...
Attorney for Anti-CAIR addresses June 6 JCRC meeting
New university president responds
Mollie Adler thought she'd be eating peanut butter and crackers for lunch on the go all school...
Thank you for your hospitality and for listening to us. As hard as the local discussions have been...
Internationally renowned cultural and intellectual historian of modern Europe Professor Peter Gay...
After an eighteen-month stint in America, my Chicago-born husband and I began preparing to move...
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"In the Family," a film supported by a grant from Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan...
“In the Family,” a film supported by a grant from Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan...
'Tis the season for new calendars.
At this season of the year, Jews the world over engage in what our tradition calls heshbon nefesh...
The Shema--a Jewish prayer declaring the pledge of allegiance to one God--is etched in Sharpie...
Jesse Greenberg On April 22nd the United States celebrated the 37th annual Earth Day. Today, our...
Why are food and meals so essential to the Jewish experience?
Known for his deep commitment to the Jewish people.
After seven months of speakers, writing assignments, lectures, and research, we Write On For...
Even as a Jewish child growing up in Cairo, Joseph Abdel Wahed says he understood that Jews were...
Eli Field, former Campaign chairman and board member of the Jewish United Fund Jewish...
Legendary Nobelist, human rights advocate and teacher shares his thoughts about the past and...
Yishai, the head of Israel’s Shas Party and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade...
The topic of “Jewish power” cuts to the chase about how Jews interact with the world.
In Germany, North Shore Country Day School students grasp the tragic past and perform hope for the...
Cosponsor a Bipartisan Resolution Calling on the World Bank Board and the U.N. Security Council to...
After two years with Write On for Israel, I am about to leave for college and start anew. I will...
Hitherto a shameless news junkie, I now recoil from the media's daily supersize dose of shooting,...
The European Jewish Congress will continue to address the major strategic issues facing European...
ASHER, BESSIE T. Dec. 22. Age 97. Wife of the late Maurice. Mother of the late Louis H. (Gloria)...
ALLSWANG, GERTRUDE (nee TEITELBAUM). Dec. 15. Age 95. Wife of the late Hyman. Mother of Diane...
Obituaries SF (5,354 words) Obits February ADLER, MARJORY (nee LEVY). Dec. 30. Mother of Robert...
Obituaries ACKERMAN, DAVID Holocaust survivor. Husband of Diana (nee Neuman). Father of Ruth...
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is lauding Illinois’ newly expanded ban on insurance...
Program provides seed money to new programs addressing unmet needs in Chicago’s Jewish community.
Jewish United Fund at the forefront advocating for awareness of the many benefits of climate...
Thirty lay leaders and staff of the Jewish Federation and its affiliate agencies traveled to...
The month of Elul, shortly before Rosh Hashanah, a season of penitence and soul-searching
The Torah has five books, that is why in Hebrew it is called Chumash, literally “composed of five.”
Laura Brown Researcher Writer 1932 Olympic gold medal winner Lillian Copeland. When Shuli Eshel...
Filmmakers are wrestling with four different projects to document or dramatize the story of Daniel...
DePaul University confirmed Friday that assistant professor Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure,...
How $360 million helps Israel grapple with the after-effects of war
You don’t need to be a physicist to have heard about the Big Bang, the theory that the universe...
Every film lover knows "Citizen Kane," but fewer recall another nifty Orson Welles vehicle, "The...
For those of us who love the Middle East, each war, each outrage, creates a special pain.
Keynote speaker talks with JUF News about issues of peace process, Jewish-Muslim relations,...
View from Jerusalem Stuart Schoffman Stuart Schoffman is a columnist for JUF News and an associate...
Actress, internationally recognized Jewish celebrity and women’s health advocate talks with JUF...
Franklin E. Horwich, a business entrepreneur and lifelong leader and benefactor in Jewish communal...
All dental care is completely free of charge, and the services offered by the clinic range from...
Stories of the Holocaust live on through descendants of survivors.
Leadership plays a central role in Jewish history as well as in contemporary Jewish life. “From...
Documentary chronicles Jewish immigrant entertainers' rise to the Great White Way
Chicago high school graduate volunteers for IDF combat infantry brigade
Users can upload hilarious clips on JewishTVNetwork.com for prizes totaling $13,000
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO), the oldest musical institution in Jerusalem, is in danger...
When we drove up to it, it looked like a Stalinist prison placed unexpectedly on the outskirts of...
DePaul Accountancy professor, Gary H. Siegel, 62, an associate professor at DePaul University's...
On the 12th of June, Oona King, an MP from the Labor party who represents a working-class district...
Consists of interested individuals in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s who will volunteer their time,...
The president of the Jewish Labor Committee applauded the decision by Germany’s largest labor...
Berg portrayed Molly Goldberg as a Jewish character in an age of widespread anti-Semitism in the...
There’s a joke floating around JUF’s Young Leadership Division (YLD) office that the slogan for...
Working, playing and talking together, Jewish and African-American teens dispel myths, discover...
Aaron B. Cohen Executive Editor Times are changing here at JUF News and in the world writ large....
Several fast-food franchise restaurants are going kosher.
Advocate in person for Jewish community needs and learn legislators’ funding and policy priorities
On the first night of Passover, April 12, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed into law a bill protecting...
Years before “being green” was a widely known phrase, leaders at the Jewish Reconstructionist...
Community-wide initiatives reach out to educate and engage new generation
Performing for a citywide teen concert as part of a yearlong celebration of “Israel at 60.”