Guide Category: Culture
The Guide to Jewish Living offers a comprehensive, up-to-date directory of Chicago-area Jewish organizations, resources, products, and services. The guide acts as a community driven lexicon sponsored by Jewish Chicago: The JUF’s Magazine to foster connection and support. Email [email protected] with questions or for information on advertising opportunities.
* Listings with an asterisk are part of the JUF/JF partnership of agencies serving the Chicago and worldwide Jewish community.
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Your Songs Inc.
Jewish music and gifts for bar/bat mitzvahs.
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Rosenblum’s World of Judaica
Full-service Jewish book/Judaica store.
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Shiga’on Singers
A choir for high-school students that performs Jewish, Israeli, and Yiddish selections for community events.
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The Junior Klezmer Orchestra
Since 1994, musicians and singers of the Junior Klezmer Orchestra have studied the art of Klezmer-traditional Eastern European Jewish music and Yiddish song-with members of the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band. Many have gone on to professional musical careers. We rehearse twice a month on Sundays from 2:30-4:00 pm (including snack) at Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah, just off the Edens Expressway in Wilmette. Our students range fromfifth grade to senior year high school. We perform at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival, the Skokie Festival of Cultures, and other venues.
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Hatzabarim Israeli Folk Dance Co.
Performs Israeli and Jewish dances, songs, and dramatizations. Israeli folk dance instruction.
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Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Offers learning opportunities that are rooted in Jewish wisdom and culture and open to all. Offerings are designed to enable personal growth, train future leaders, and engage individuals in exploration of Jewish life. Graduate programs and professional workshops are offered in the Chicago area, in select locations across North America, in Israel, and through distance learning. Public programs including films, speakers, seminars, concerts, and exhibits are offered at the Institute's Michigan Avenue facility, in the Chicago suburbs, and online.
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Artists of Note
Storyteller and puppeteer: performances, workshops, writing, and presentations.
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Syd Lieberman
A storyteller: telling folk tales, short stories, and original pieces.
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Maya Polsky Gallery
Oil paintings and drawings by contemporary Jewish artists.
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American Jewish Artists Club
Jewish artists working in various media and thematic subjects; art exhibits, newsletter, lectures, and meetings to discuss issues in the arts.