2022 Festival Program
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Join us from 11:00am 6:00pm
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Greater Chicago Jewish Festival 2022
Final Stage Schedule
Crain Maling Stage
11:00 am Family Concert
Featuring Joel Frankel, Marilyn Price, and Rabbi Joe Black
12:15 pm Kol Sasson – The Festival “House Band” since 1980
Featuring Rob Weinberg, Susie Fox Lorge, Michael Heimlich and Don Rossoff. With special guests Judy Director, Cantor Riki Lippitz, Nadav Simon, and Shelley Yoelin.
1:00 pm Six13
2:00 pm The Internationals
3:00 pm Tracy Friend and Kyra Goldman
3:30 pm Community Sing*
4:00 pm Shakshuka
4:45 pm Jay Rapoport
5:00 pm Israeli Dancing
JUF Stage
12:00 pm Ovadya
1:00 pm Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, with Lori Lippitz
2:00 pm Rabbi Joe Black
3:00 pm A Moment for Ukraine: Cantor Pavel Roytman and Sofi Fraser
We reach out to support those who face atrocities, whose human dignity is in jeopardy and who choose to defend themselves.
3:30 pm Community Sing on the Crain Maling Stage*
4:00 pm Six13
5:00 pm Jewbiquity featuring the Roots Rock Society
Community Sing – 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm
*Please join with many of our performers as we create an inspirational and fun sing-a-long experience at the Crain Maling Stage. Hiney Ma-tov u mah naim shevet achim gam yachad!
Art Fair Participants
Please be sure and visit these co-sponsoring organizations tables in the Organization Fair on the Festival Day .
Alpha Epsilon Pi
American Friends of Magen David Adom
Americans for a Safe Israel
AMIT Children
The ARK
Bridges 613
CCL Shul Members
CJE SeniorLife
Chaiway Riders – Jewish Motorcycle Club
Chicago Breslov
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
Chicago YIVO Society
Clean Speech Illinois
Congregation BJBE
Congregation B’nai Shalom
Congregation Kol Emeth
Congregation Or Shalom
Emanuel Congregation
Eshel
Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation
Gift of Life
Hadassah Chicago-North Shore
Hebrew Seminary: A Rabbinical School for Deaf & Hearing
The Institute of Jewish Chaplaincy
JCC Chicago
JCFS Chicago
JRC
Jewish Committee on Scouting
Jewish Defense League
Jewish Family Experience
Jewish Free Loan Chicago
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. – Department of Illinois
JUF/IsraelNow
Keshet | For LGBTQ+ Equality in Jewish Life
La’briut
Lakeshore Jewish Funerals
Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois
Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois
Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois
Magshimey Herut North America
Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago
Masa Israel Journey
NCSY
National Council of Jewish Women
Naale Elite Academy
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El
No Shame on U
Oak Park Temple
Park Plaza Retirement Community
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School
Sarnoff Center for Jewish Genetics
Schneider for Congress
The Selfhelp Home
SHALVA
Shaarei Chinuch Day School
Shalom Memorial Park and Funeral Home
Shomrim Society of Illinois, Inc. (First Responders of the Jewish Faith)
Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
StandWithUs Midwest
StreetWise
Temple Chai
Temple Har Zion
The Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery and Healing
Torah Learning Center
Weinsten & Piser Funeral Home