Jewish Federation of Greater Lafayette - Indiana

02/09/2024

12/19/2023

DONATE NOW AT WWW.JFGL.ORG

We’ve made 100 calls in the last two days! We’ve raised over $1000 towards our goal of $30,000. You will support our local mitzvah fund and PJ Library, Jewish life on campus through Purdue Hillel and Purdue Chabad, the Holocaust the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference, and the Jewish Studies Speaker Series. We allocate to Jewish Federations of North America to support lifesaving programs all over the world.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Lafayette extends a warm and cordial Shalom to you on behalf of our Jewish community. We hope this web site will help you become acquainted with our area as well as serve as a useful resource guide to its people and services.

12/18/2023

It’s that time of year! The annual campaign phonathon. Thank you to Matthew Kramer-Morning and to Purdue University Hillel for your help in making the call. Go to www.jfgl.org to donate now.

04/13/2023

11/17/2022

The Jewish Federation of Greater Lafayette invites you to a presentation sponsored by JFGL Board member, Eyal Barash with Barash Law. This is the third year in a row that Mr. Barash has sponsored a continuing education credit program for attorneys, to benefit our federation. Attorneys must pay a fee for credit but this is free to the community. Thank you, Eyal! This is very meaningful for the work we do and the programs we support here in the greater Lafayette area, In Israel, and all over the world.

Register here: https://forms.gle/x8pL1JwSiyp6VkPB8:

05/09/2022

This is very exciting and wonderful!

Great News the Governor has signed our proclamation submitted by the Indiana Jewish Historical Society for Jewish Heritage Month in the state of Indiana!

Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana
Jewish Federation of Greater Lafayette - Indiana
Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis
Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley
Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne
Congregation Achduth Vesholom
Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council
JCCindy Arts
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
Temple Israel West Lafayette
Temple Israel Sisterhood, West Lafayette, Ind.
Temple Adath B'nai Israel
Sinai Temple of Michigan City
Sinai Synagogue
Beth Boruk Temple
Temple Beth El in Munster, Indiana
Temple Beth El
Congregation Beth Shalom Indy
Congregation Shaarey Tefilla
Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Congregation B'nai Torah
Etz Chaim Sephardic Congregation of Indianapolis
United Hebrew Congregation, Terre Haute, Indiana
Congregation Beth Shalom — Bloomington Jewish Community
Purdue University Hillel
Indiana Hillel
Chabad IU Bloomington
Chabad at Purdue
Chabad Center for Jewish Life - Lubavitch of Indiana

04/05/2022

This Thursday!
Please join us for the 41stannual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference event “The Art Cured Me!” an online event with the vibrant and prolific artist, former engineer, and Holocaust survivor from Slovakia Tibor Spitz. Since 2019, the GLHRC has focused - in this waning era of the witness - on events featuring people who survived the attempted destruction of European Jewry during the Second World War, including Frank Grunwald (Bohemia to Indiana), Oscar Singer (Poland to Pittsburgh), and Samuel Wachs (Poland to Argentina and Tel Aviv), each illuminating a story from a different place and migration trajectory.
Tibor Spitz illuminates his story with his art. The art, he exclaims, cured him!, and it enabled him to reclaim his life and build his forward-thinking optimism. Tibor and his family survived by hiding in the forest in eastern Slovakia for 200 days, dug into the ground in a box designed and placed by his brother. He became a chemical engineer after the war, and was dispatched to Cuba on a fraternal project organized by the Czechoslovak Communist regime, from where he escaped to Canada with Noemi, with whom by then he was married. Noemi survived the war in hiding in Slovakia as a baby: she was “perhaps the only Jewish child born in Slovakia in 1943.” They eventually settled together in New York’s Hudson Valley, where Tibor began to fill their home with art in many mediums . Noemi will join Tibor at the event.
Tibor will share his story through his art on April 7th, and will then engage in a Q&A discussion that I (Rebekah Klein-Pejšová) will moderate.
More information & registration here: http://glhrc.org/
(The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants the week of April 7th.)
Feel free to forward this email to your students, colleagues, family, friends, and others who may be interested in attending!
The event is sponsored by the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference, the Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship at Purdue, the Human Rights Program at Purdue, the Jewish Federation of Greater Lafayette, the Sam and Ethel Chosnek Memorial Fund, Bauer Family Subway.

41st Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference: The Art Cured Me!, April 7, 2022.

03/09/2022

Lafayette Jewish Community Religious School students gave $313 in tzedakah last Sunday to the JFNA's Crisis in Ukraine effort. You can still give, too! For the Community entry, choose "Network" and type in "Greater Lafayette Indiana".
https://jewishfederations.org/crisis-in-ukraine2022 #:~:text=The%20estimated%20200%2C000%20Jews%20living,more%20have%20fled%20the%20fighting.

Ukraine has been wracked by conflict. The instability has profoundly affected the country’s 200,000 Jews. Aid from Jewish Federation partners is life-saving.

03/09/2022

Follow Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference! Sign up for the Zoom conference with Tibor Spitz, Holocaust survivor and artist, on Thursday night, April 7 at 7 PM. Tibor will be joined by his wife, Noemi, also a Holocaust survivor. Tibor will speak about his experiences in Slovakia during the years of the Holocaust and will illustrate his talk with the art that he produced in retirement. As he said, "The Art Cured me!" Join us for this remarkable presentation, register at the website www.glhrc.org

03/02/2022

Thank you to Hillel Purdue for making hundreds of hamantaschen for the Lafayette Jewish Community Religious School mishloach manot fundraiser! We have a great Jewish community and we are so grateful for generous support from our donors.