$11,000 raised on Super Sunday

On Sunday, February 5th, you came together in spirit and in action as one community to make the world a better place. Thank you for answering the call and making a generous donation to the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation's Annual Campaign. The difficult economic times we now face have placed an unprecedented strain on resources. Many families and seniors are hurting. Although you may not see the need each day, it is real and urgent. By making your generous gift on Super Sunday, you helped to ensure that the CUJF has the critical funding needed as 2012 begins.

Your support of Federation helps support a Jewish education for the children of our community, fight poverty, rescue and resettle Jewish immigrants, and strengthen Jewish life locally and abroad.

If you did not have the opportunity to donate on Super Sunday,
you can donate online or send your donation to
Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation
503 East John Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Your Complete Purim Resourse Guide
Learn more about the story behind the holiday, it's customs and celebration both in the synagogue and at home. Your complete Purim resourse guide

In Israel, a New Approach to Organ Donation

Until now, Israel ranked at the bottom of Western countries on organ donation. Jewish law proscribes desecration of the dead, which has been interpreted by many to mean that Judaism prohibits organ donation. Additionally, there were rabbinic issues surrounding the concept of brain death, the state in which organs are typically harvested. As a result, many patients died waiting for organs.

So Israel has decided to try a new system that would give transplant priority to patients who have agreed to donate their organs. In doing so, it has become the first country in the world to incorporate “nonmedical” criteria into the priority system, though medical necessity would still be the first priority. Read full New York Times article

Community member Kate Kuper featured in News Gazette article

Studio visit with Kate Kuper

Studio Visit appears first in print, in Sunday editions of The News-Gazette. Melissa Merli visits with community member and dance teacher and Kate Kuper. Kate answers questions about teaching and the benefits of dancing.

Community and CUJF board member Dov Cohen has study published in NYT

Blacks Face Bias in Bankruptcy, Study Suggests

"The study of racial differences in bankruptcy filings was written by Robert M. Lawless, a bankruptcy expert and law professor, and Dov Cohen, a psychology professor, both with the University of Illinois; and Jean Braucher, a law professor at the University of Arizona.

A survey conducted as part of their research found that bankruptcy lawyers were much more likely to steer black debtors into a Chapter 13 than white filers even when they had identical financial situations. The lawyers, the survey found, were also more likely to view blacks as having “good values” when they expressed a preference for Chapter 13."

From The Website Development Team

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