JOLT: Jewish Opportunities & Learning for Teens is offering a summer sampler of events over three separate evenings: May 31, June 6 and 14. Teens entering grades 8-12 are invited for the “sampler” events, which take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m....
A co-chairman of Limmud International, Helena Miller, was awarded the Max Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. Miller is the first British woman chosen to receive the annual prize, which will be presented in Jerusalem in June. he prize is...
How time truly does fly when you are having fun! It is really hard to believe but March 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE), which started off with a modest set of goals but emerged into a...
The week-long Festival of Jewish Life will start with a song and offer numerous and diverse ways to experience and celebrate Jewish culture. A capella singing sensation the Maccabeats will kick off the festival at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Jewish...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 15, 2012
Eight-year-old Faith Faro of Solomon Schechter Day School is excited as she cuts out and traces squirrel patterns in a classroom at the Chodorovsky Building on an unseasonably mild but foggy February morning. It may not feel quite like summer outside...
Central Agency for Jewish Education will offer three new adult education classes in February at the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive in Creve Coeur: • "Reading the Gospel Through a Jewish Lens": This course is designed to...
A population study of the greater Cleveland area found that the Jewish population has remained relatively stable over the last 15 years. The 2011 Greater Cleveland Jewish Population Study, the first comprehensive survey since 1996, found 80,800 Jews...
A challenge grant from Randy and Nancy Green matched $18,000 in donations to Jewish Federation with equal donations to Congregation Shaare Emeth. The challenge grant was aimed at motivate Shaare Emeth members who have never donated to Jewish Federation...
The Covenant Foundation has awarded $900,000 in new grants to Jewish educational organizations and initiatives. The foundation's first grants for 2012, which were announced Wednesday, are part of approximately $1.7 million to be distributed this year,...
The 15th annual Jewish College Fair for High School students and their families: "CHOICES Jewish College Fair-Looking at Colleges through Jewish Eyes." will be held Sunday, Dec. 11, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Fifty-eight colleges and universities will be represented...
Sonia Dobinsky, Executive Director of the Central Agency for Jewish Education, and Lori Wishne, Jewish Federation Assistant Director of Development, are recipients of the 2011 Fred A. Goldstein Memorial Service Award for professional excellence. Bob Millstone,...
We reported several weeks ago about a proposed merger between two Jewish day schools in St. Louis, the Reform Jewish Academy-Saul Mirowitz Day School (RJA) and the Solomon Schechter Day School (SSDS). After an exhaustive and exhausting process of engagement...
