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 ...

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 ...

Sofia, a Holocaust survivor in the Chicago area, has faced countless challenges over the years. As with so many other Jews who were in Europe during World War II, she has sustained her share of loss ...

It seems bashert--or meant to be--that Brian Baker has joined the JUF family as its Deputy Director of Security, but you might not have predicted it considering his origins. Growing up in the tiny ...

Chicago Police Department Officers Roger Heath, Jr. and Michael Specht understand a bissel Yiddish. And a smattering of Hebrew, too. They know when observant Jews daven--and why cellphones are not ...

This month, we bring you the annual "love and relationships" issue, a favorite of our magazine's staff to work on. But in this national moment, it feels tone deaf to focus solely on the joy of love ...

This city is full of talented, giving, forward-thinking Jewish young adults striving to make the world a better place. Jewish Chicago and YLD are proud to present the 11th annual Double Chai in the ...

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 ...

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 ...