Guide Category: Organizations, Events, Activities
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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The Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center
Provides congregations and the community with Judaic educational and cultural resources. The fully automated collection includes more than 20,000 books, periodicals, videos, DVDs, audio, and other resources, and is open to the community. Book discussions, author events, film screenings, and other cultural programming are also offered.
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JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival
The 6th Annual JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival will run March 1-17, 2019 featuring a compelling and diverse selection of films, including narratives, comedies, and documentaries, that will stir emotion, nostalgia, and inspire conversation. This year the festival is featuring films that focus on strong, inspiring female protagonists, women who make a difference for their families, for their communities, and the world. The 2019 festival includes masterfully told films that give a powerful voice to issues of social justice and come together to create a film festival infused with stories of love, loss, learning, humor and survival. This year, the JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival will include 43 feature-length films shown at premiere venues across the city and suburbs.
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Transcontinental Music Publications
TMP is the premier publishing house for Jewish choral music and songbooks. Its sheet music and songbooks include music for worship, informal settings, and concert performance, by renowned Jewish composers. Long known for its choral publications, in recent years, Transcontinental has become known also as a provider of contemporary-style music in songbook form, including the best-selling Complete Shireinu, the Shabbat Anthology series, and Sing Unto God: The Debbie Friedman Anthology.
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The Kabbalah Bookstore Highland Park
Non-profit organization that makes the principles of Kabbalah understandable and relevant to everyday life.
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Jewish Neighborhood Development Council of Chicago (JNDC)
Strengthening and preserving Chicago's flagship Jewish community in an international neighborhood. JCCWRP is an organization of neighborhood residents and Jewish community leaders who care deeply about the past, the present, and the future of West Rogers Park. We aim to promote and encourage commercial, cultural and residential development designed to sustain a thriving community for generations to come.
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L’Chaim Center
Through a wide array of classes and events, monthly Shabbat programs, and trips and retreats, L’Chaim Center offers Jewish people of all ages, backgrounds and affiliations authentic Jewish experiences.
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Continuum Theater
Jewish artists and lovers of the arts created Continuum Theater to support Jewish learning, community and cultural continuity by preserving, growing and sharing Jewish performing arts experiences. Continuum Theater produces theater, music, dance and arts education experiences that explore Jewish history, heritage, contemporary issues and the full scope of the Jewish experience. The theater hopes to nurture Jewish artists and to forge productive partnerships with community organizations interested in creative programming. Programs include: The Chicago Jewish Play Reading Festival, The Midwest Jewish Play Writing Contest in association with the Jewish Plays Project and school artistic residences.
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The Kabbalah Bookstore Chicago
Non-profit organization that makes the principles of Kabbalah understandable and relevant to everyday life. Founded by Rav Yehuda Ashlag in 1922, with locations in more than 40 cities and an extensive online presence.
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Krav Maga Illinois
Krav Maga (contact combat in Hebrew) is the official self defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces, has been taught to hundreds of law enforcement agencies and thousands of civilians in the United States and is also taught in the schools in Israel through the ministry of education.
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Joyce’s Events and Party Planning
5201 S. Cornell Ave., Suite 25B Chicago IL 60615 (773) 955-1436 (773) 955-2230 [email protected] http://www.joycesevents.com Joyce Feuer None false