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 ...

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 ...

Eighteen years ago, Rabbi Jennie Bunde and her husband moved to Galesburg, Ill., and found a community that sustained her family and, unexpectedly, changed the course of her professional life. After a ...

The statue was conceived in 1936 by Barnet Hodes, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago- and a Jewish immigrant from Poland, like Salomon. Hodes established The Patriotic Foundation of Chicago to ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Springboard BlogBlog with Springboard The Springboard blog highlights the experiences of Jewish teens and Jewish teen professionals participating in community programs across ...

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, ...

Two generations, one ceremonyShe was born in 1947 in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp, near Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents, Perla Bless Grunbart and George Grunbart, both came from Hasidic ...