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Updates on CUJF from our Executive Director, Ma'ayan Weinberg.

Mar 20, 2023

Local High School Senior Wins 2nd Place in National Film Contest

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…

Sep 1, 2022

Dvar Torah - Re'eh - In Honor of Elliot Weinberg

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 …

Jul 29, 2022

Commemorating Mary Lou Brotherson’s Contributions to Holocaust Education

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 …

Jul 29, 2022

Women in Power, D’Var Torah July 20, 2022 by Andrea Aguiar

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…

Jan 24, 2022

Message the CUJF President, Marc Snir

Dear Friends:
 
Year 2021 has ended, and we are entering 2022. For many of us 2021 was not a pleasant year: Covid is still with us, anti-Semitism has not abated and the political discourse in our country continues to foster fear and deepen divisions. At such times it is good to remember t…