Cleveland Heights Students Can Participate in Jewish Federation Contest

Students have a chance to win money for a creative arts entry

Jewish Federation of Cleveland Offers Big Bucks to Students in Creative Arts Contest

The Federation will reward the best entries regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will offer a total of $2,500 to winning entries in its 2013 creative arts contest for middle school and high school students. All students in grades 6-12 in Northeast Ohio schools are invited to submit creative writing and visual arts entries. This year's theme is the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, when Jewish resistance fighters held off German oppression for a month. Participating students are asked to use the uprising or others as inspiration in their projects. The Federation suggests writing or designing from the point of view of a fighter, inhabitant or somebody on the outside looking in as a few examples. The deadline for submissions is …

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Jewish Federation Discusses Population with Leaders

More numbers crunched from Jewish Population Study

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland is working through data about thousands of Cleveland-area residents to help decide how it should plan its future. And Cleveland’s Jewish community has some unique characteristics. There is a higher rate of poverty in the Cleveland Jewish community than in other cities that have gathered this population data, like Chicago and Baltimore, said Erika Rudin-Luria during a breakfast presentation to Jewish community leaders Tuesday. The Federation contracted Jewish Policy and Action Research (JPAR), a professional survey services company, to phone people in all of Cuyahoga and parts of Portage, Geauga, Lake, Summit and Lorain Counties. Rudin-Luria is the vice president of development at the Jewish Federation of …

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Jewish Federation of Cleveland to Conduct Survey

Findings will guide local nonprofits, synagogues, other organizations

If you have 18 minutes to spare in the next few months, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland asks that you give it to them. The Federation has contracted Jewish Policy and Action Research (JPAR), a professional survey services company, to phone people in all of Cuyahoga and parts of Portage, Geauga, Lake, Summit and Lorain Counties. "I think that one of the most critical pieces is people picking up the phone and answering," said Enid Rosenberg, Community Planning Committee chair. Between March 21 and the end of June the company will survey households, including 1,000 Jewish households, to determine human services needs, geographic distribution and religious and cultural attributes. “The idea is to use all of this information to inform the …

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