Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Chicago

Campus affairs and the hillels of illinois - federation supports a vast array of activities for students in high schools, colleges, universities and professional schools in illinois. The hillel program provides opportunities for jewish students to explore and celebrate their jewish identity in college campuses across illinois. Hillel's vision is a world where every jewish student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning and israel. Hillel seeks to enrich the lives of jewish students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. Hillel seeks to create a pluralistic, welcoming and inclusive environment for jewish college students: an environment where students are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually and socially. Increasingly, campus affairs and hillel must help jewish students combat the dramatic rise in antisemitism and efforts to delegitimize and demonize israel and work directly with high school and college administrations to develop best practices to address antisemitism when it occurs.

Refugee resettlement services program - the jewish federation administers comprehensive refugee social services on behalf of the state of illinois. The illinois refugee social service consortium is comprised of 15 direct service agencies committed to providing quality refugee social services including: employment assistance, cultural adjustment, case management, k-12, youth mentoring, services to older refugees (seniors), mental health counseling, data collection, reporting via an online salesforce database.