Reflections on the movie Golda by Brett Ashley Kaplan
On August 23rd, the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation in collaboration with the UIUC Department of Jewish Studies hosted a private showing of the upcoming film Golda. Prior to the film, a panel of three local female poitical leaders …
Under Tutelage of CUJF's Holocaust Education Center, Local High School Senior Wins 2nd Place in National Film Contest
On March 10th, Natalee Hunter, a senior at Sullivan High School in East Central Illinois, received a second place award in the high school film division of the Holocaust Art…
Dvar Torah - Parsha Re'eh
by Ma'ayan Weinberg
Delivered on August 27th, 2022 at the Egalitarian Traditional Minyan at Sinai Temple
In honor of Elliot Weinberg
Growing up in CU I was often the only Jew in the room. There were so many facets of how I did things that made me unique …
Commemorating Mary Lou Brotherson’s Contributions to Holocaust Education in Central Illinois
by Dr. Brian Kahn, Co-director, CUJF Holocaust Education Center
Co-written and edited by Robin Goettel and Becky Lawson
As you may already be aware, on June 6, 2022, a dear friend and colleague …
During the month of July we read the book of Numbers or Bamidbar in Hebrew which means “in the desert”. This is the fourth of the five books of Moses. The Israelites’ wondering in the desert is coming soon to an end and so is Moses’s leadership. There is conflict and chaos in Ba…
