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Cyber-synagogue
Sim Shalom offers virt-shul reality
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Rabbi Wendi Geffen leads North Shore Congregation Israel
Geffen will lead one of the largest congregations in the Chicago area, with 1,350 families.
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Freshly grown Judaism: Made in Geneva, Ill.
The link between modern Jews and the ancient Jewish tradition today is called “Jewish Environmentalism.”
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‘Temple of the Soul’
Mishkan HaNefesh becomes new, two-volume Reform High Holiday prayer book
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New year—new faces
There are many new rabbis joining pulpits this year at congregations around the Chicago metropolitan…
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India ambassador discusses growing ties to Israel
His Excellency Arun Kumar Singh, India’s ambassador to the United States, addressed a special joint…
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Boaz Blumovitz named JUF Chief Financial Officer
He succeeds Michael Tarnoff, a 35-year veteran of JUF.
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Moody's boosts Federation bond rating
Moody’s, one of the major bond rating services, upgraded the Jewish Federation’s investment ranking from…
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Next on 'Sanctuary' – Caring for the Holocaust's aging survivors
Seventy years after the end of World War II, our community’s Holocaust survivors are facing…
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Holocaust scholar Prof. Deborah Lipstadt to keynote Jewish Federation’s 115th Annual Meeting
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago will be held Thursday,…