The Young Leadership Division of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is committed to building a better Jewish community in Chicago, Israel, and throughout the world. We ...

Find the right place to help your child grow, learn and love every day. Akiba-Schechter welcomes all families and children to become a part of its diverse community of families. The school creates a ...

Led by beloved early childhood teacher and experienced gardener, Liz Zetley, children and caregivers will cultivate a sense of wonder and a love of the natural world in this interactive class for the ...

The Young Leadership Division of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is committed to building a better Jewish community in Chicago, Israel, and throughout the world. We ...

I love setting the Passover table. Each item on the table has such meaning, and I'm not just talking about the matzoh and the shankbone. I'm talking about the pot that I'm pouring the chicken soup ...

Chanukah came early this year, with the last candle lighting on Dec. 6. But that is no reason to stop celebrating the holiday season. In fact, it's an invitation to enjoy the very best of all possible ...

Watching TV late one summer evening, I stumbled upon Stephen Colbert chatting with Hannah Einbinder, the Jewish 20-something comedian and co-star of the hit show Hacks. While the conversation between ...

David Denby's Eminent Jews slyly takes its title from Lytton Strachey's 1918 book Eminent Victorians , a group biography that took a mostly irreverent look at four prominent personalities of the ...

I love the haimish feeling I get when I visit the Neve Hanna youth village in the center of Kiryat Gat. The village offers a safe, loving, and nurturing home environment for children, ages 6 to 18, ...

Just in time for Chanukah, Makers of Israel (makersofisrael.com) is launching to connect Israeli artisans with international customers, following a year of extremely low in-person sales. The website ...

As a key part of its community-wide security initiative, JUF has named Daniel Godsel as its Security Director. At a time of accelerating antisemitism and attacks against Jewish institutions, he will ...

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known in Hebrew as the Yamim Noraim --the Days of Awe--and during this season, Jews reflect on the previous year and pray for the new year to come. Here are some ways ...