Hundreds of people gathered in Skokie for the dedication of a new 24-hour kosher community fridge honoring Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Israeli-American hostage who was murdered by Hamas after being taken from a music festival. Organizers say the fridge, stocked entirely by neighbors, is the country's first kosher fridge of its kind, and Goldberg-Polin's parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, were among those in attendance.

The Hinda Institute, in partnership with Tikvah Jewish Recovery and Healing and the Rutues Center for Business and People Development, launched the Shared Horizons Peer Support Specialist Training Program

Faye Kohn and Miriam Krupka Berger of Teaneck are among nine fellows from the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom wrapping up their first semester as Walder Fellows in the Executive Ph.D. in Jewish Studies program at Gratz College in Pennsylvania.

More than 500 Jewish women gathered in Newark, New Jersey on April 27 for The Jewish Woman Entrepreneur “Powered by Her” Conference, a full-day event focused on business growth, leadership skills and making connections.

In choosing a name for the beautiful, new campus in Chicago housing the Lubavitch Girls High School (LGHS), Mrs. Elizabeth (Shira Malka) Walder wished to select a name that would inspire the girls who attend this premier Chabad high school, which attracts students from around the country.

Chicago’s Lubavitch Girls High School held a community-wide Groundbreaking Ceremony celebrating their future home, a vast new building designed to strengthen every area of a student’s academic, social, spiritual, and emotional growth.

A few years ago, Allan B. found himself in a position he'd never imagined. A seasoned nonprofit executive who'd worked for years in the Jewish community, he was struggling after a layoff, borrowing money from family and friends to pay his mortgage, make car payments, and manage daily living expenses-all while seeking gainful employment.

Fifteen exceptional Orthodox Jewish women have been selected to join the inaugural Walder Fellowship cohort of Gratz College’s newest Ph.D. program. The fully funded, leadership-focused executive Ph.D. in Jewish studies will equip a generation of thought-leaders with high-caliber research and writing skills and specialization in core areas of Jewish tradition, history and culture.

(Courtesy of Gratz) Fifteen exceptional Orthodox Jewish women were selected to join the inaugural Walder Fellowship cohort of Gratz College’s newest PhD program. The fully funded, leadership-focused Executive Ph.D in Jewish Studies will equip a generation of thought leaders with high-caliber research and writing skills, and specialization in core areas of Jewish tradition, history and culture.

Joseph Walder was born in 1951 in Philadelphia; his father was a furniture salesman, and a child of immigrants. The family moved to suburban Chicago, where Joe grew up. Joe had a passion for science from the very beginning, and his father built him a basement chemistry lab for homemade experiments. He went on to earn both an MD and a PhD from Northwestern, eventually becoming a professor of biochemistry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.