Thank you to all of our participants for coming together and fundraising for the JUF Ukraine Relief Fund! Special thank you to our partners: Mobile Music Interactive Entertainment, Aviva Chertok, ...

Check out this year's 12th annual Double Chai in the Chi: Chicago's Jewish 36 Under 36 list of talented, difference-making Jewish young adults in our city, presented by YLD and Jewish Chicago: The JUF ...

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 ...

What do you do for a living? I create marketing content at Modern Healthcare, a magazine that serves leaders at health systems, insurers and various other healthcare companies. What is your favorite ...

In December 2025 and January 2026, JUF met with candidates for IL House, IL Senate, and US House. JUF invited all known candidates with available contact information to complete a questionnaire and to ...

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 ...

(From left) Robert Morris, George Washington, and Haym Salomon, memorialized in the Three Patriots statue at Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue. On the corner of Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue stands an ...

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 ...

Dentist Dr. Adina Silberman at her wedding with her husband, Eric Silberman, and her grandparents, who survived the Holocaust. Her grandmother, Sabina Rosenbloom, was hidden in a barn by a Christian ...

For Jews in America, Purim recalls events that took place in a faraway country, in a city with a funny, almost fairy-tale name: Shushan. But what if Shushan were as close as New York is to Boston?

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 ...