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10/21/2021

Call for Entries: 2022 Creative Arts Contest

Tags: Arts, Federation, Advocacy, Holidays, Awards, PR

Call for Entries: 2022 Creative Arts Contest

Calling all Middle and High School Students: Enter your essays and artwork for the 2022 Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah Creative Arts Contest, Cleveland’s Commemoration of the Holocaust & Heroism.

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10/18/2021

"Alone in These Four Walls": Liliya's Story

Tags: Federation, Overseas, Video

"Alone in These Four Walls": Liliya's Story

During the COVID-19 pandemic, JDC gives elderly Jewish women in the Ukraine food, medicine, and homecare.

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10/11/2021

Setting the Stage for Holocaust Education

Tags: Federation, Partner, Advocacy, Teens, Video

Setting the Stage for Holocaust Education

Testimony Theater Cleveland is a program in which 7th-12th grade students interview Holocaust survivors and their families about their experiences and then act out those stories as a powerful and emotional stage performance.

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10/11/2021

Federation’s Super Sunday Raises $1.4 Million

Tags: Federation, Campaign

Federation’s Super Sunday Raises $1.4 Million

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland raised $1,396,626 in its annual Super Sunday fundraising event Oct. 10.

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10/04/2021

Delivering Comfort and Food In Jewish Cleveland

Tags: Federation, Partner, Volunteer

Delivering Comfort and Food In Jewish Cleveland

Twice a week, Katie, a Holocaust survivor, has meals delivered to her by a volunteer through Jewish Family Service Association (JFSA), a Federation beneficiary agency. Katie is one of hundreds of people every week in our community who receive hot meals through JFSA. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, JFSA staffers stepped up to meet the rapidly increasing demand. And once community members could resume delivery duties, a new, younger crop of volunteers emerged. "I can't stand up or walk as much as I used to be able to," Katie said. "So, I really appreciate having the meals come to me. But I enjoy the people who deliver it even more; they're such lovely, wonderful people."

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10/04/2021

October: Collection for Afghan Refugees Settling in Cleveland

Tags: Federation, Volunteer

October: Collection for Afghan Refugees Settling in Cleveland

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland is collecting essential and necessary items to be distributed for the Afghan community who have recently relocated to Cleveland.

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10/01/2021

Federation Selected For Grinspoon LIFE & LEGACY Initiative

Tags: Federation, Family, PJ Library, Day Schools, Partner, Philanthropy

Federation Selected For Grinspoon LIFE & LEGACY Initiative

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland was selected to participate in the 2021 LIFE & LEGACY initiative, a national Jewish legacy giving program run by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.

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09/30/2021

Super Sunday To Include In-person, Virtual Options

Tags: Federation, Campaign

Super Sunday To Include In-person, Virtual Options

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will host its annual and largest fundraiser of the year, “Super Sunday,” both virtually and in-person from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 10.

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09/14/2021

Kol Israel Holocaust Memorial Commemorates 60th Anniversary

Tags: Federation, CRC

Kol Israel Holocaust Memorial Commemorates 60th Anniversary

Dozens of Clevelanders remembered the Holocaust through speakers, candle lightings and memorial prayers during the annual Kol Israel fall memorial at Zion Memorial Park in Bedford Heights Sept. 12.

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09/13/2021

WATCH: Get the Facts: Navigating the Delta Variant With Your Family

Tags: Federation, Live, Family, Kids

WATCH: Get the Facts: Navigating the Delta Variant With Your Family

Our community was joined by Dr. Arthur Lavin, pediatrician, and Dr. Suzanne Schneps, clinical psychologist, to hear the latest information on COVID-19 and mental health strategies for families with young children.

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