Greater Chicago Jewish Festival

Celebrating over 40 years of Jewish culture! We call it the Heart and Soul of Jewish Chicago because, on this one special day, you can find everything that is Jewish in Chicago. We create our own “town square” filled with the sights, sounds, and tastes of a dynamic and creative community.

The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is produced by the Jewish Production Organization for Cultural Events and Theater (P.O.C.E.T.), a non-profit corporation. The Jewish P.O.C.E.T. was organized in 1980 to create a production group for the Festival and Jewish theater. The Steering Committee is comprised of professionals in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, radio, television, communications, community relations, education, engineering, finance, law, and technology. Most importantly, the Steering Committee was created from the beginning to represent the spectrum of the Jewish community—all denominations, all ages, and families from all parts of Chicagoland are welcome.

This is the largest Jewish cultural event in Chicago and the largest ongoing Jewish festival in America brings together the best of the community’s professional and amateur singers, dancers, and artists. It demonstrates to Jewish children and the larger community that the Jewish community does not just gather in times of crisis.
Educates the Jewish community about its multifaceted culture.

The festival reaches out to the general community to show the breadth and depth of the Jewish community. It provides an avenue for Jewish artists and performers to develop and present their work while encouraging them to work on Jewish themes within their fields, and encourages tolerance by bringing the entire Jewish community together to celebrate our culture, identity, and diversity.

The Festival has two artistic goals:
It is designed to provide a platform for local performers and fine artists. We seek out musicians and artists, especially those we meet in the general community, and ask them to consider working within Judaica. Ceramists are also encouraged to consider using ritual objects, such as candlesticks and spice boxes, and musicians were invited to take part in original Jewish song competitions.

Secondly, the Festival is designed and advertised to attract people from the greater Chicagoland community. We seek to share Jewish culture to show our neighbors that the Jewish community does not just come together in times of crisis. This is also an important message for our children. We come together as a strong community to speak out, but also to celebrate Jewish life with food, dance, music, art, and exchanging ideas.

Over the years, we’ve been lucky to have many famous folks perform on the Festival stages: Theodore Bikel, Rabbi Joe Black, David Broza, Debbie Friedman, Peter Himmelman, Maya Johanna, Lisa Loeb, Shuli Nathan, Maccabeats, Steven Page of Bare Naked Ladies, Peter Yarrow, and more.

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The Festival of New Yiddish Music brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage! Don’t miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music and related events. Rain or shine.

St. Louis Jewish Film Festival

The J’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival showcases national and international cinema that explores universal issues through traditional Jewish values, opposing viewpoints and new perspectives. The Jewish Film Festival now offers year-round opportunities to experience Jewish films from around the world. In 2022 all films will be presented virtually!

The Festival’s complete lineup of features and documentaries will be available to view on-demand anytime from November 9-15. All films and programs will be purchased and shown via our viewing platform. Once you purchase a ticket or pass, you will be emailed information on how to unlock films for viewing during the week of the festival. Once a ticket-holder begins watching a program, access to it remains available for 48 hours and must be completed by the end of the festival.

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival

The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival shares and celebrates Jewish heritage through quality music and artistic experiences.

Our vision: With music as our inspirational partner, AJMF grows Jewish community and celebrates our heritage through year-round live performance events and dynamic learning programs for the Southeast region. We bring diverse community together for a resounding annual world music Spring Festival.

The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF) was founded by Russell Gottschalk and created in early 2009 under the auspices’ of Limmud Atlanta +Southeast to feature contemporary Jewish music in an effort to entertain and educate the general public on Jewish culture and unite Atlanta’s young Jewish community through the power of music.

International Eilat Festival

Dancing non-stop! At the Eilat Festival, the motto is to dance everywhere – in the various halls and open spaces – a celebration of parties, dancing and music in every corner. Veteran and amateur dancers, couples and escorts, all enjoy the “Disneyland” of belly dancing – and not only – salsa, reggaeton, flamenco, African, Debka, and soothing body-mind workshops. Add to that hot DJ parties with free alcohol and you will have the hottest event of the year!

The holiday begins – hosting De Luxe! , Enjoy a free bar with popsicles, iced coffee and icing, alcohol of all kinds, cocktails, cappuccino from the machine and plenty of surprise treats, all while the sounds of the festival fill the entire space with inspiration and magic. A celebration on stage – on Thursday and Friday shows and parties at noon, in the evening and at night – with free alcohol of all kinds – throughout the day!

Jewish Book Week

Jewish Book Week is an annual international literary festival, held in London. Every year, the festival brings together writers and speakers – from the most eminent to the first-time published – from the worlds of history, journalism, philosophy, science, art, music, poetry and fiction in a celebration of ideas.

The festival features Jewish themes and writers, as well as discussions on the most important issues of the day, and is open to everyone. Over eighty events are presented during the festival itself. A number of special events are also organised over the course of the year, outside the festival period. Jewish Book Week is organised by the Jewish Book Council, a registered UK charity.

March of the Living

The March of the Living  is an annual educational program which brings students from around the world to Poland, where they explore the remnants of the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day observed in the Jewish calendar (Yom HaShoah), thousands of participants march silently from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex built during World War II.

The program was established in 1988 and takes place annually for two weeks around April and May, immediately following Passover. Marchers have come from over 50 countries, as diverse as United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Estonia, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, and Turkey.

The Israeli founders of the March of the Living were Avraham Hirschson and Dr. Shmuel Rosenman. They were assisted in the early years by Jewish communal leaders and philanthropists from the United States (Alvin Schiff, Gene Greenzweig and Joseph Wilf, the first North American Chair of the March of the Living), and Canada (Walter Hess, Shlomo Shimon, Rabbi Irwin Witty, and Eli Rubenstein).

Miami Jewish Film Festival

The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) was established in 1996 and has grown into a core cultural program for South Florida’s vibrant arts landscape. In 2013, with the hiring of new Festival Director Igor Shteyrenberg, Miami Jewish Film Festival entered an era of expansion and commitment to artistic quality.

MJFF’s programming voice, unique among Jewish film festivals, has gained recognition for its numerous discoveries and prize winners. Annual attendance and media impressions have grown exponentially with the Festival’s original audience increasing from 4,000 in 2013 to 30,000 in 2019. Official Festival venues also expanded to Regal South Beach Cinemas, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Coral Gables Art Cinema, O Cinema, Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, Temple Beth Am, Miami Beach JCC, Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, and Miami Theater Center.

Limmud Festival

Limmud Festival is a pioneering festival of Jewish learning. It’s a place for community, learning, discovery, empowerment, diversity, debate, laughing, dancing, families, volunteering. Limmud Festival is a place for you to discover something new.

Limmud is thrilled to have been able to bring people together again as a community of learning, despite the ongoing pandemic, for a programme of over 300 diverse, inspiring and thought-provoking sessions.

The core team of 16 dedicated volunteers led the way in creating Festival 2021 alongside the efforts of 1 in 4 participants who contributed their time, to provide the Limmud community with another fantastic event for participants of all ages.

The five-day event (including programming before and after Shabbat) saw sessions from 367 presenters on subjects from the topical – such as current political issues and impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the community, to the niche – such as shmita laws for Jews in the Diaspora and the Jolles Encyclopaedia of British Jewish cantors, chazanim, ministers and synagogue musicians.

The event welcomed political speakers David Lammy MP, Councillor Carla Denyner, and former MK Aliza Lavie, alongside performers including Chava Mirel, Joanie Leeds and The Macaroons. In addition, the programme featured 27 sessions from European Limmud volunteers spotlighting 15 different communities.

🌍 Celebrating One Year of the Jewish Silk Road Portal

World Jewish Travel was thrilled at #IMTM 2024 to present a copy of the WJT Jewish Silk Road Pressbook to the CEO of the Azerbaijan National Tourism Board Florian Sengstschmid and Jamilya Talibzade its Israeli representative Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB).

The Pressbook celebrates the one year anniversary of the Jewish Silk Road Portal launch, an amazing example of using Jewish travel as a means of cultural diplomacy, whilst highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to the ancient trade route. Kudos to our participating partners from the Kiriaty Foundation (Turkey), National Board of Tourism of #Georgia, National Board of Tourism of #Uzbekistan, and Israeli Embassy of #India. 

See the overwhelming reaction from the press, by downloading our free pressbook. Special thanks to Moshe Gilad of the @haaretzcom for highlighting this forgotten but important story in the Galeria section of the newspaper and available to download on WJT.

👉Link to WJT Jewsih Silk Rad Pressbook and more is in our bio

🌍 Celebrating One Year of the Jewish Silk Road Portal

World Jewish Travel was thrilled at #IMTM 2024 to present a copy of the WJT Jewish Silk Road Pressbook to the CEO of the Azerbaijan National Tourism Board Florian Sengstschmid and Jamilya Talibzade its Israeli representative Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB).

The Pressbook celebrates the one year anniversary of the Jewish Silk Road Portal launch, an amazing example of using Jewish travel as a means of cultural diplomacy, whilst highlighting the significant Jewish contribution to the ancient trade route. Kudos to our participating partners from the Kiriaty Foundation (Turkey), National Board of Tourism of #Georgia, National Board of Tourism of #Uzbekistan, and Israeli Embassy of #India.

See the overwhelming reaction from the press, by downloading our free pressbook. Special thanks to Moshe Gilad of the @haaretzcom for highlighting this forgotten but important story in the Galeria section of the newspaper and available to download on WJT.

👉Link to WJT Jewsih Silk Rad Pressbook and more is in our bio
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