Flanked by private security, Rabbi Moshe Steiner speaks at a Chanukah gathering in Toronto on Dec. 14. (Photo credit: Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Within hours of a devastating ...

Meetup Location: Either JUF Offices (30 S Wells) @ 5:30PM or self-dismissal and arrival to United Center (1901 W Madison St) @ 6:15PM 30 S Wells, Chicago, IL 60606 or 1901 W Madison St, Chicago, IL ...

Returned hostage Matan Zangauker minutes after reuniting with his mother Einav. Zangauker was kidnapped from Nir Oz and held for 736 days. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesman) As we began to understand the ...

JUF amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place — for everyone. Community powered, we consider the totality of local and global Jewish needs and how to address them. From ...

After more than three decades of lending his voice, heart, and pen, Paul Wieder--longtime Jewish Chicago Associate Editor and passionate member of the community--retired from JUF in October, leaving ...

The other morning, I was walking my dog when I saw a sight seen in every neighborhood in Israel: a parent getting into the car with their child in uniform, likely taking them to a bus depot enroute to ...

"If we don't have peace in Israel, which is the ultimate sweet gift, then I would say I am looking forward to my friend Cindy bringing me some chocolate rugelach from Boulangerie Cheskie in Montreal.

For nearly 60 years, Lester Crown has inspired donors across the generations. He is pictured here in 2014. (Photo credit: Robert Kusel) Philanthropist Lester Crown is Jewish Chicago's patriarch, a ...

A few years ago, Allan B. found himself in a position he'd never imagined. A seasoned nonprofit executive who'd worked for years in the Jewish community, he was struggling after a layoff, borrowing ...

At just 33 years of age, Mike Berman landed his dream job in Chicago. The Northbrook-raised lifelong sports fan nabbed the gig as a sports reporter for NBC Chicago in 2016 and has since interviewed ...

The “Jew-Fro”/ By J. Kott-Wolle/Oil on Canvas, 14 x 18, painted 2019. Original photo taken in 1975 There is no moment too small or too large in contemporary Jewish life for Jacqueline Kott-Wolle to ...

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 ...