The Russian-speaking Jewish Division (RJD) of the Jewish United Fund (JUF) engages the Russian-speaking Jewish community in the Chicagoland area with a focus on outreach to young professionals and ...

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When Ido Samuel was eight years old, a magician pulled him on stage at a Chanukah party held at the hotel where his mother worked. He cracked jokes with the audience, making the whole room laugh. "For ...

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 ...

"Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews." So pronounced Marlon Brando on Larry King Live in 1996. This antisemitic trope has legs, as they say. Ye (formerly Kanye West) repeated it in a rant in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The earliest mention of the soul in Greek literature is Homer's morbid picture of the unhappy shadowy existence of the Trojan War heroes in Hades. Later Greek literature accepts the existence of souls ...

Jewish comedian and actress Hannah Einbinder wearing a Star of David necklace, an accessory she often wears to Hollywood events. (Photo credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO via Getty Images.) ...