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 ...

Will your rabbi's Yom Kippur sermon this year be written by a computer? AI is everywhere. Lawyers let it scan contracts. Doctors consult it regularly. Accountants use it to crunch numbers. And rabbis ...

This episode of the public affairs program “Sanctuary,” which airs on ABC7-Channel 7, explores hunger, its impact on countless lives, and how a wide range of agencies and individuals are combatting ...

Steven Levin, a Chicago attorney who has made his mark in the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice, no longer wished to defer a dream he'd held for decades: teaching in Israel. One of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen, center, met with the author, right, and Steven Dishler, assistant vice president of JUF’s Jewish Community Relations Council, in April at Gulen’s residence in ...

Left: Book jacket. Right: The author’s late father Arthur Greenberg, a Chicago veteran. More than 70 years after World War II, historians and others with an interest in the deadliest conflict to date ...

The Talmud encourages us to "perform (a) mitzvah as beautifully as possible" (Shabbat 133b:5). Whether that's setting a beautiful table for Shabbat, cooking delicious food for Jewish holidays, or ...

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 ...

Buffalo Grove native Josh Frydman is living out his childhood dream: He's a sports reporter for WGN-TV and co-anchor of GN Sports, the network's nightly sports show. Prior to returning to his sweet ...

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 ...