The Community Foundation for Jewish Education (CFJE), a support foundation of Chicago’s Jewish United Fund, recently awarded $166,000 to strengthen Jewish education programs in the Chicago metropolitan area.

1. CFJE Awards Grants to
Bolster Chicagoland
Jewish Education

2. The Community Foundation for Jewish
Education (CFJE), a support foundation of
Chicago’s Jewish United Fund, recently
awarded $166,000 to strengthen Jewish
education programs in the Chicago
metropolitan area.

3. The grants will be given to 13 schools,
synagogues, and other educational institutions
to enhance programs that serve students from
preschool to high-school age. Rabbi Scott
Aaron, executive director of CFJE, said the
programs provide good educational
experiences but often lack the funding to
improve or reach more people.

4. The programs receiving the grants vary widely.
Oak Park Temple, for example, will be
awarded $20,000 for its weekly sixth grade
family class, and the Hebrew curriculum pilot
project at Temple Sholom of Chicago will
receive $2,500.

5. The family school program “Beyond the
Classroom” at Congregation Or Shalom of Lake
County has been awarded $20,000 for
expansion, and Shir Hadash Reconstructionist
Synagogue’s Jewish music education project
has been awarded $8,000.

6. Other grants support youth programs,
teachers, and Jewish arts and artists.