As my parents tried to explain early on, this journey was about more than just learning prayers or Torah. In many ways, it ...
The Norton & Elaine Sarnoff Center for Jewish Genetics is a supporting foundation of JUF, and is supported in part by the Michael Reese Health Trust.
It was also just a good thing to do.” Many of us may think of a “typical” b’mitzvah as a service in synagogue on Shabbat followed by a big party that weekend, often at great expense. But there are ...
Jamie Diamond Schwartz and David Schwartz are stepping into their new roles as the 2026 JUF Annual Campaign Chairs, ...
She learned that he had some Jewish ancestry, but unfamiliar with the Chicago Jewish community—until now. Then he mentioned he’d always wanted to visit Israel, and she suggested a Birthright Israel ...
Directly following, on the evening of March 7, is the Zukerman Trio, featuring the Jewish violinist/violist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman, born in Tel Aviv in 1948, but a New Yorker since moving there to ...
Selma Blair is considered one of the most versatile actresses in Hollywood. The Detroit native began acting in the early 1990s in a school production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. She ...
A deathly infiltration had occurred in both worlds, and an understanding began to shape that life would never be the same again; this would begin a fight for survival. That the walls of protection, ...
That’s the thing about wellness. It can exist in unexpected places. It is deeply sensory. It lives in sound and repetition, ...
By November, JUF began partnering with Nir Oz, to help the community start to slowly rebuild itself on the literal ashes of ...
Following the October 25 attack, investigators pursued an extensive, methodical process. They issued subpoenas, executed ...