Shanah Tova! Happy New Year! Are you looking for a place to celebrate the High Holidays your family? We are excited to share the following family programming for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Rosh ...

These are all our Young Families and Community-wide events listed here for your convenience. JUF Young Families programming is enriched by the diversity of our participants. We know each family is ...

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 ...

Masa Israel Journey, is home to the widest variety of mid-and-long term (5-12 months) international experiences in Israel for young Jewish adults (18-30). Masa Israel will help you find the right ...

These chairs, symbolizing each of the hostages taken on October 7, have stood outside of Am Shalom Congregation--no matter what the weather--for nearly a year. In this most challenging year, local ...

As "People of the Book," Jewish communities have long relied on stories to infuse daily life with meaning and structure. Just as adults turn to books, instruction manuals, and stories for guidance, we ...

October 7 had a profound impact on Chicago area Jewish day schools and high schools. Shortly after the devastating attacks, school communities rallied and brainstormed about how they could help ...

UIUC students gather at an on-campus vigil in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. After several years of negotiations, Hillel International, Illini Hillel, and JUF have reached an agreement with ...

Wendy Platt Newberger has hosted countless of Israeli families in her Chicago home through the years. So, when she learned of an opportunity to host a family from Kibbutz Holit for a week this past ...

Yonatan Yogadovsky, director of the Magen David Adom (MDA) international department, speaks to participants of a JUF mission about the role of the MDA. (Photo by Yonit Schiller) Since October 7, JUF's ...

Where were you on October 7? I was at my kitchen table, studying Talmud when there was a knock on the door. It was 6:30 a.m. on Shemini Atzeret, which brings Sukkot to a close. A knock on the door ...

"I was so confused at what anxiety was at the time, so I really didn't know what was going on," he said, as he reflected on the summer of 2022. Tepper is now a seventh grader at Deerfield's Caruso ...