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04/15/2015

2015 Irene Zehman Award Winners

Tags: Awards, Federation, Video, Featured, PR, Women

2015 Irene Zehman Award Winners

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland continued 90+ year tradition by recognizing the recipient of the distinguished Charles Eisenman Award for exceptional civic contributions: Harley I. Gross. The Federation honored Harley at the 111th Annual Meeting on April 14 at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation.

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04/09/2015

At home in Beit She’an

Tags: Beit Shean, PR, Israel, Blog

At home in Beit She’an

If someone told me a year and a half ago that I would move to Israel for 10 months, I am pretty confident I would not believe them.

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04/06/2015

Yom Hashoah Remembers the Holocaust & Heroism

Tags: PR, Events, Teens, Holidays

CLEVELAND – 1,100 Holocaust survivors call Cleveland home. Join our community as we honor these survivors and remember those who perished in the Holocaust at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the Kol Israel Foundation’s Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah on Wednesday, April 15 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at Green Road Synagogue, 2437 S. Green Road in Beachwood. This annual event is free and open to the public.

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03/27/2015

Jewish Federation of Cleveland hosts Community-wide Israel Independence Day Celebration

Tags: PR

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland is partnering with more than 50 local Jewish organizations and community businesses to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, featuring a full-length concert by Israeli sensation The Idan Raichel Project.

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03/24/2015

Russian Professionals Visit Cleveland

Tags: Russia, Overseas, Young Adults, Leadership, PR

Russian Professionals Visit Cleveland

A group of 20 Jewish young professionals and supervisors from St. Petersburg, Russia, visited Northeast Ohio last week to learn about the region’s Jewish community – and to take those lessons back home to help strengthen the Jewish community there.

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03/04/2015

Russian Scholars Visit Cleveland

Tags: PR, Arts, Russia

Two world-renowned scholars from Cleveland’s sister city of St. Petersburg, Russia join our community for a special lecture series, March 9-15, 2015. Alexander Ivanov and Valery Dymshits are both ethnographers at the Petersburg Judaica Center, a research center of the European University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Their visit is in coordination with the exhibition of photos featured in, “The Way We Looked: Photographs of Shtetl Life,” which are now on display in the Roe Green Gallery at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.

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03/04/2015

The Jews of Cleveland Seminar

Tags: PR, Arts

Western Reserve Historical Society, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Siegal Lifelong Learning at Case Western Reserve University, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Cleveland Jewish News Foundation are sponsoring a two-day The Jews of Cleveland seminar on Sunday & Monday, March 22 & 23, 2015.

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02/27/2015

Federation Hosts Blood Drive

Tags: PR, Volunteer

Federation Hosts Blood Drive

Members of the community are invited to help save a life at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Blood Drive on Monday, March 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Federation’s Mandel Building, 25701 Science Park Drive in Beachwood.

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02/20/2015

Federation Unveils Security Vehicle

Tags: Security, Federation, PR

Federation Unveils Security Vehicle

Security is a top priority in the Jewish community and it has become a growing concern as anti-Semitic and terror attacks take place around the world. To strengthen security within the local community, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland has acquired a mobile patrol unit.

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02/13/2015

ADL's Foxman to Discuss Anti-Semitism

Tags: PR, Advocacy, Federation

ADL's Foxman to Discuss Anti-Semitism

Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, will discuss “Global Anti-Semitism” when he delivers the Sidney Z. Vincent Memorial Lecture at the 68th annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s community relations committee at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood.

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