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About JUF News

If it matters to the Chicago-area Jewish community, it matters to JUF News. Published by the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, JUF News is the Midwest’s largest-circulation Jewish community publication. The magazine offers features, profiles, news, and commentaries about key facets of Jewish life, learning, and culture—locally, in Israel, and around the world.

JUF News Team

Brent Frost

Brent Frost is the Creative Director/Production Director of JUF News. Brent graduated with a double major from Roosevelt University in Theatre Performance and English. He has worked in the magazine's advertising department and JUF's broader design department.Read More

Christine Sierocki Lupella

Christine Sierocki Lupella grew up in Chicago’s North Shore and Northwestern ‘burbs. A writer since she first picked up a crayon and started copying the alphabet, she found her calling as a rural newspaper editor/reporter/photographer in Minnesota’s north woods and then later, in the cornfields of southeastern Wisconsin (Go Packers!) where she still resides.Read More

Cindy Sher

Cindy Sher is the Executive Editor of JUF News. She also hosts the quarterly public affairs TV show Sanctuary, produced by JUF, on ABC 7 Chicago. She started her career at the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago in the summer of 2000, weeks after graduating with her Bachelors of Science in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University.Read More

Jessica Leving

A Chicago (ok, suburbs) native, Jessica Leving holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and an MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Jerusalem Post, The Arizona Republic, and Global Traveler Magazine.Read More

Linda Haase

Linda Haase is JUF’s Senior Associate Vice President of Marketing Communications. She previously held the position of Director of Media & Public Affairs for the American Cancer Society, Illinois Division; served as Public Information Officer for the Illinois Department of Public Health; and worked in the private sector.Read More

Lindsey Bissett

Lindsey Bissett is an Ohio native and studied commercial photography and art at Ohio University. She pursued her interest in graphic design when she began working at the Jewish United Fund in 2008. She now works as the Visual Communications Manager for JUF.Read More

Marie Lewis

Marie E. Lewis is Publishing Manager for JUF News and juf.org. Before coming to JUF News, she worked in the Media Investment Group at Starcom Worldwide.Read More

Paul Wieder

Paul Wieder has been the Associate Editor of JUF News since 2012. His JUF career began in the Marketing Communications department in 1994. Has been reviewing Jewish music and interviewing Jewish musicians since 1999, more recently in a blog and with podcasts.Read More

Robert Feiger

Robert Feiger is the Publishing Director of JUF News and his responsibilities include advertising space sales, scheduling, business processes, managing production, circulation, and distribution, and whatever else is needed. Read More

Stefanie Bregman

Stefanie Bregman is the Assistant Vice President of marketing communications at the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago and the co-founding Editor of Oy!Chicago. Read More

Steven Chaitman

Steven Chaitman is the Director of Strategic Digital Communications for the Jewish United Fund and the Managing Editor of Oy!Chicago. Read More

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