JUF Podcasts
Summary: Features, profiles, news, and commentaries about key facets of Jewish life locally, in Israel, and around the world.
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Podcasts:
Passover, the liberation holiday, is about transitions, the seasons of humanity, and the great epoch of the Jewish people. Aaron B. Cohen evokes the essence of the holiday. Chag kasher v’sameach, may your holiday be pure happiness.
Noted author and historian Michael Oren speaks with Aaron B. Cohen about the Iranian threat, Israel, and U.S. Middle East policy.
Tackling the topic, "Jewish Values, Public Servant" at The Ideas Cafe at Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook.
Andy Statman is a virtuoso klezmer-style clarinetist and also a pioneer of progressive bluegrass mandolin. "Statman is a master of two idioms" – New York Times.
Aaron Cohen covers the waterfront with Israeli writer and translator Hillel Halkin
Rabbi Ruben Saferstein of Buenos Aires describes his community’s solidarity with Israel and commitment to Jewish education.
Writer and activist Roya Hakakian talks to JUF’s JCRC about opportunity as well as risk in the quest for human rights, stability, and an informed Iranian public.
Lecture sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (JCRC)
A trip to a California bat mitzvah prompts reflections on the passage of time.
A New Mexico waitress with a Hebrew tattoo? A recent cross country journey showed there’s room for that in this vast land.
Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, an African American rabbi from Chicago, recalls the legacy of intergroup collaboration in the Civil Rights Movement at a special JUF ceremony, Jan. 21.
Tracy Mason from Wilmette and a student at University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana provides the final report from her Chicago Community Trip.
Gal Elbaz, a 20 year old Israeli soldier from Rishon L’Zion reports on her experiences traveling with the Chicago Community Birthright Israel trip.
Steve Kamykowski, a senior at University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana reflects on the amazing time he had visiting the Jewish Federation’s Partnership 2000 region and the new friendships he has made. Read more about Partnership 2000.
Dr. Rachel Bronson, vice president of programs and studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and author of Thicker than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia (Oxford University Press, 2006) addresses JCRC.
