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Illinois
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225 N McHenry Road
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
(847) 459-1677
Fax: (847) 459-6202
E-mail: betham@techinter.com
Institutional Membership: 525 families
Percent Intermarried: members - 25%; board - 15%; staff - 25%.
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation for Conversion; Havurot; Holiday "how to" Workshops; Extensive Adult Education.
Contact: Rabbi Marc J. Belgrad
3104 W. Windsor Road
Champaign, IL 61821
(217) 352-8140
Institutional Membership: 319 families
Percent Intermarried: members - NA; board - NA
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Interfaith
Couples Group; Parents of Intermarrieds; Couples Support
Groups; Passover "how to" Workshops; "December Dilemma"
Discussions.
Contact: Jean Deichman, Chairman - Outreach Committee.
3760 North Pine Grove
Chicago, IL 60613-4103
(773) 281-1423
Institutional Membership: 850 families
Percent Intermarried: members - NA; board - NA
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation
for Conversion; Hebrew Classes; Havurot; Couples Support
Groups; Family Oriented Programming; Outreach Seder; Outreach/Learner's
Shabbat; Counseling; Extensive Adult Education; Holiday
"how to" Workshops; Lectures on Intermarriage; Films on
Intermarriage; "December Dilemma" Discussions.
Contact: Rabbi Michael Siegel
15 West Delaware Place
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 867-7000
Email:info@chicagosinai.org
Institutional Membership: 700 families
Percent Intermarried: NA
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation
for Conversion; Jews by Choice; Interfaith Couples Group;
Parents of Intermarrieds; Couples Support Groups; Holiday
"how to" Workshops; Outreach Seder; Discussions on Intermarriage;
Extensive Adult Education.
Contact: Rabbi Michael Sternfield; Susan
Solomon, Temple Administrator
3480 N Lakeshore Dive.
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 525-4707
Institutional Membership: 1100 families
Percent Intermarried: members - 10%; board - NA
Programs: Finding Sholom: Reaching Out to Interfaith Families and Seekers; Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation
for Conversion; Jews by Choice; Holiday
"How-To" Workshops; Outreach Learners Shabbat.
Contact: Rabbi Aaron Petuchowski; Rabbi Shoshanah Conover
CONGREGATION KOL AMI (R)
Serving the Adult Jewish Community of Chicago
845 N. Michigan Avenue #913E
Chicago, IL 60611
Institutional Membership: 250 households
Percent Intermarried: NA
Programs: Hebrew Classes; Holiday "how to" Workshops;
Counseling; Extensive Adult Education.
Contact: Linda Silber, Executive Director
47 West Polk Street, #543
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 458-9040
Fax: (312) 433-6851
Email: jqg4444@sbcglobal.net
Institutional Membership: 34 member units (singles or families)
Percent Intermarried: members/clients: about 30%; board: 40%
Also, our rabbi is in an interfaith marriage. Additionally, we have traditionally held services in space rented from churches. Our community was founded initially with our first rabbi and couples from a Jewish-Catholic Dialogue group.
Programs: Derekh Torah; Discussion of Intermarriage; "December Dilemma"Discussions; Holiday "How-To" Workshops; Outreach Seder; Counseling; Lectures on Intermarriage;
Other Programs in the community: Our rabbi teaches in a Jewish-Catholic Family School program and consults with a Jewish-Catholic Dialogue group in the community. We are also involved in an organization of churches and synagogues that created a single-room occupancy building to help provide housing to homeless individuals and give them a new start and with inter-faith organizations supporting the fair labor movement
Contact: Ascher Levy, President
P.O. Box 405
Highland Park, IL 60035
(847) 347-3003
E-mail: info@kolhadash.com
(Program held at Deerfield High School
and Heller Nature Center,
consult website or call for location information)
Institutional Membership: 100 families
Percent Intermarried: "a substantial number";
statistics n/a
Programs: Adult Education; Sunday School; Intermarriage
Workshops (Spring); Family Discussions and Programs.
Contact: Rabbi Adam Chalom
1185 Sheridan Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
(847) 835-0724
Fax: (847) 835-5613
Email: rabbimason@nsci.org
Institutional Membership: 1500 families
Percent Intermarried:
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Hebrew Classes; Discussion of Intermarriage; Extensive Adult
Education; "December Dilemma" Discussions; Preparation
for Conversion; Jews by Choice; Stepping Stones/Pathways;
Holiday "How-To" Workshops; Counseling.
Contact: Rabbi Steven S. Mason
300 Hillcrest Boulevard
Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
(847) 885-4545
Institutional Membership: 375 families
Percent Intermarried: members - 15%; board - 4%.
Programs: Communications Workshop - How to Handle
the in-laws; "If I'm Jewish and You're Not, What are the
Children?"; High Holiday/Peasch "how to" Worshops; Outreach/Learner's
Shabbat; Outreach Picnic; Interfaith Panel Discussions;
"December Dilemma" Discussions.
Contact: Michael Smart, Outreach Chair
1424 W 183rd Street
Homewood, IL 60430
(708) 799-4110
Fax: (708) 799-5340
Email: office@bybs.org
Institutional Membership: 200 households
Percent Intermarried: members - Unknown; board - Unknown.
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes through Chicago Association of Reform Rabbis; Hebrew Classes; Discussion of Intermarriage; Extensive Adult Education; "December Dilemma" Discussions; Preparation for Conversion; Holiday "How-To" Workshops.
Contact: Rabbi Ellen Dreyfus
1710 South Highland Avenue
Lombard, IL 60148
(630) 627-3912
Fax: (630) 627-9123
Institutional Membership: 500 families
Percent Intermarried: members - NA; board - NA.
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes(with
community); Interfaith Family Workshops; Holiday "how
to" Workshops.
Contact: Elaine Bergstrom, Chair of Outreach Committee
1670 RFD
Long Grove, IL 60047
(847) 537-1771
Fax: (847) 537-8075
E-mail: NA
Institutional Membership: 725 families
Percent Intermarried: members - 10%; board - 1%
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation
for Conversion; Hebrew Classes; Jews by Choice; Holiday
"how to"Workshops; Outreach/Learner's Shabbat; Discussions
on Intermarriage; Extensive Adult Education; "December
Dilemma" Discussions.
Contact: Ms. Laurie Pereira & Ms. Michelle Davis
772 Fifth Avenue
Naperville, IL 60563-2641
(630) 961-1818
Institutional Membership: 350 member families
Percent Intermarried: members - 40%; board - 25%.
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Preparation
for Conversion; Hebrew Classes; Havurot; Holiday "how
to" Workshops; Outreach Seder; Discussions on Intermarriage;
Extensive Adult Education; "December Dilemma" Discussions.
Contact: Barbara Bernstein, Education Director
937 Happ Road
Northfield, IL 60093
(847) 441-5760
Fax: (847) 441-5765
Email: RabbiGreenberg@TempleJeremiah.org
Institutional Membership: 870 households
Percent Intermarried: members - 30%; board - 15%.
Programs: Introduction to Judaism Classes; Hebrew Classes; Mentor Program; Times and Seasons; Outreach Learners Shabbat; Staff Sensitivity Training; Discussion of Intermarriage; Extensive Adult Education; "December Dilemma" Discussions; Preparation for Conversion; Jews by Choice; Melton Mini-School; Holiday "How-to" Workshops; Counseling.
Contact: Rabbi C. Michelle Greenberg
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