Jewish Cincinnati News

With Change Comes Opportunity

Change brings opportunity. I am excited to share that because of the beautiful, anonymous gift of $18 million to our partner agency, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center (HHC), HHC will expand the important work it is doing.

I will be joining the leadership team of HHC as its …

New One-Time Funding to Spark Innovation in Jewish Cincinnati

Cincinnati Hillel received one of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s new Special Projects grants, focused on leadership.
 

“A lot of people are going to see the impact of this money,” said Elida Kamine, Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s Planning and Allo…

Why Passover Stirs Us to Help Ukraine

Over 4.3 million refugees from Ukraine. We will hold those refugees in our thoughts and hearts this Passover, because the Passover story is itself a refugee story. As you know, Passover begins Friday, April 15, at sundown.

As Jews, we see ourselves in the struggle and story of the refugee. …

Six Months of Impact: Our Chaverim Weigh In On Their Cincinnati Experience

Nitzan Beck (left) and Lior Binyamin (right), Cincinnati’s Chaverim M’Israel or Friends from Israel, with their American friend Donald at the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo.
 

“Both Lior and Nitzan are very passionate about what they bring here to Cincinnati,” said Jen…

How You Help: What to Do When Teens Are Antisemitic in School

"We invited these students for tours, not to lecture them on what they had done, but really to educate them about what the historical context was, what the extreme manifestation of hate is, and how dangerous it is. And to encourage them to think about actually standing up against it." —Sa…