Chances are, you and your family have a Federation story. If you live in the Cleveland community, you’ve probably benefited from the Federation ‘s Campaign for Jewish Needs. And, now we’re asking you to give back.

Two month’s worth of donations collected by local organizations, day schools, and synagogues garnered piles of warm winter clothes to be distributed to the Jewish and general communities.

Over 2,000 toys donated by community members for Jewish children in need during Chanukah.

I owe my career, in part, to…Saddam Hussein, or more accurately to an accident involving him.

A Torah is among a congregation’s most cherished possessions, containing the foundational narrative of the Jewish people.

Under the hot Israeli sun stands a soldier. Beneath his battered helmet, a lock of red hair; behind his sunglasses, twinkling blue eyes that survey the scene. This Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) paratrooper and combat medic is a long way from his home in Cleveland, OH but he’s right where he wants to be.

If you can read, you can fly… Marc knows this and that’s why, for the past decade, he’s made the trek each week through city neighborhoods, across a concrete playground to an inner city school. As a volunteer tutor, he reads books with kids.