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If it matters to the Chicago area's Jewish community, then it matters to JUF News, the region’s largest circulation Jewish community publication. Published monthly by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, JUF News offers features, profiles, news, and commentaries about key facets of Jewish life locally, in Israel, and around the world.
Fourteen projects will receive nearly $15,000 to enrich Jewish life in the South Suburbs in coming...
6/12/2013 4:08:48 PM
Panel reviews impact on economy, public services, border security and more
6/7/2013 10:44:43 AM
Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, a former
United Jewish Appeals Chair, died Monday at age 89.
6/4/2013 3:31:35 PM
JUF-backed foundations immerse high-school students in philanthropy
5/30/2013 7:26:08 PM
We called this trip "Sankofa," a West African word that means 'go back and get it.'
5/29/2013 4:24:32 PM
We began as 32
individuals and over the course of the week we became
an inseparable group.
6/7/2013 11:04:02 AM
Chicago Project a pioneering, holistic approach to improving elementary education
6/7/2013 9:26:07 AM
This year, the number of summer Shlichim (emissaries)in North America is up by more than 150 from...
6/6/2013 10:53:47 AM
JFNA made an official resolution supporting Natan Sharansky’s plan for
women’s prayer at the...
6/6/2013 10:48:17 AM
"Three arguments are put forward by the anti-Semites all the time, and they are false all the...
5/29/2013 9:16:06 AM
"Nowhere in the Jewish world is a there a service-learning program of a similar scope."
5/29/2013 10:50:48 AM
Do you want to learn more about that great-aunt that no one wants to talk about?
5/29/2013 10:45:30 AM
Poland
is seen as having the world’s worst record on the restitution of Jewish
property lost...
5/22/2013 3:00:12 PM
What I have been through is not something one can ever forget.
5/2/2013 10:35:34 AM
Guy is a young man from Darfur who lost his family in the genocide and fled to Israel.
5/2/2013 10:22:29 AM
In My First Sony,
Israeli actor/director Roy Horovitz portrays an 11-year old boy
obsessed with...
6/19/2013 3:55:58 PM
The play was written by North Shore Congregation Israel congregant Scott Gendell.
6/12/2013 11:39:03 AM
KlezKamp, Shakshuka, 'Hava Nagila: The Movie,' Chicago YIVO Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture and...
6/6/2013 11:05:56 AM
The new book written by Jewish writer,
feminist, and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin provides a...
6/5/2013 3:13:14 PM
If you've ever thought about working behind-the-scenes or in the eye of the camera as the host of...
5/29/2013 3:54:24 PM
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