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About Trades, Industries and Professions

tipWith the largest, most diverse network of Jewish professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners in Chicago, JUF's Trades, Industries, & Professionals Division is the central address for your networking and philanthropic needs, and is positioned to provide access to both high level business leaders and Jewish thinkers through quality and relevant professional programming.

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Chicago Jewish Entrepreneurs Forum

CJEF is Chicago’s premier Jewish business entrepreneurial organization.

  • Are you looking to grow your business?
  • Would you benefit from the input of a peer advisory board of business owners in non-competing industries?
  • Are you interested in learning from well-known local and national business leaders?
  • Groups for emerging, established and next generation of family business available.

Members are in one of two categories:

  • Members have owned their own business for at least one year and either have $500,000 in minimum revenue or 5+ employees; or
  • Members are poised to take a major leadership role in their family business in the near future.
  • For more information or to find out if you qualify, please contact Jed Silberg or Robyn Gottlieb at entrepreneur@juf.org or 312-444-2835 / 312-357-4961.

What's Happening

Networking Face-to-Face in a Digital World

In this seminar, best-selling author and keynote speaker Susan RoAne will offer commonsense advice and practical suggestions for anyone who wants to improve his or her ability to network. While emphasizing the continuing importance of in-person communication, she will use her practical “how to” style to show you how to interact, how to behave, and how to connect with others with comfort and confidence. Cost: $15 in advance ($20 at the door).

Tuesday, December 01, 2009
07:30 AM - 10:00 AM

GCG Financial Training Center
3000 Lakeside Drive
Bannockburn, IL

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Secular Jews: From Birobidzhan to Buffalo Grove

Through a mix of video clips and discussion, we’ll learn about the attempts to create a Jewish autonomous region in the Russian Far East in the first half of the 20th Century. But that was neither the beginning nor the end of secular Judaism. What new doors are opened today by a cultural approach to Jewish identity? Together with Rabbi Adam Chalom from Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation and Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter Grant Slater, who recently visited Birobidzhan, we’ll talk about how growing up as a Soviet Jew translates to modern Jewish life in the United States.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
07:00 PM

Russian Moishe House
474 N. Lake Shore Drive

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Young Professionals Networking Event

Hosted by the Young Financial, Young Lawyers & Young Real Estate Groups. To help facilitate networking, you will receive a colored name tag corresponding to your professional field. This will help connect you to other professionals in your field at the event. Be sure to fill out your business contact information on the registration form. Cost of event is $30 which includes an open bar. Business attire preferred.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Social 25
25 W. Hubbard St.

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RJLF Chanukah Celebration with Russian Senior Center

Join us for latkes, the lighting of the candles, and lively singing!

Sunday, December 13, 2009
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

909 W. Wilson
Chicago, IL

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