The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will host its annual Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah commemoration from 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 13 at Congregation Mishkan Or at 26000 Shaker Blvd. in Beachwood.

After joining 39 other Cleveland civic leaders on the first biennial Thomas and Joann Adler Civic Leaders Israel Mission in 2017, Jill Zimon, co-chair of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s civil rights mission and former AJC Cleveland president, came up with the idea to visit the South and learn more about Black Americans’ history.

Last week, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland shared an update with our community in response to the recent antisemitic attack on Temple Israel in Detroit. Today, we are following up with ways you can get involved in Jewish Cleveland through an upcoming briefing on the war with Iran, security trainings, and advocacy opportunities.

Members of the Ohio Jewish Caucus gathered at the Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood on March 12 – hours after the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich. – for a community meeting, in which they encouraged constituents to remain vigilant and communicative about their needs in the state.

Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s community relations committee hosted its 2026 Tu B’Shevat Sustainability Celebration on Feb. 5 at Urban Community School in Cleveland, bringing together community members, environmental leaders and partners to honor the Jewish new year for trees through the lens of sustainability and collaboration.

A few weeks after the bloodiest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, a small group of Northeast Ohio leaders traveled to Israel and met with family members desperate for news about loved ones taken hostage to the Gaza Strip by Hamas. In those waning days of October 2023, Israel was still determining who was among the more than 251 hostages, and who had been killed.

Ilana Isakov Katz, vice chair of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s board of trustees, said lighting a menorah during Chanukah, gathered with friends and family, “should never be an act of courage.”

Nazi memorabilia, some already attracting bids, is being offered for sale through a local online auction – a move the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s board chair Jeffrey J. Wild condemned as “abhorrent.”

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland will hold the Cleveland Jewish Teachers Summit from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Building at 25701 Science Park Drive in Beachwood.

The Kol Israel Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland held the 66th annual Fall Memorial on Sept. 28 to remember the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust at the Kol Israel Holocaust National Memorial at Zion Memorial Park in Bedford Heights.