Celebrate Your B’nai Mitzvah

Envision A Strengthened Community

Your B’nai Mitzvah is an important turning point in your life and JCFS Chicago wants to join you on your journey! JCFS is here to bolster your mitzvot and ensure you can take pride in giving back.

By partnering with us, you ensure that your community strengthens self-sufficiency, belonging, and well-being among individuals and families in the Jewish and broader Chicago communities.

Get involved

Looking for a B’nai Mitzvah project for an upcoming celebration? JCFS Chicago offers projects to individuals who wish to support those we serve.

• Setup a personal fundraising site and support the needs of one of our programs
• Engage your community and collect items that directly impact individuals we serve.
• Volunteer your time with individuals we serve and get to know them firsthand.

Support those we serve!

Some opportunities include:

• Services for People with Disabilities
  • Engage your community in a sensory toy drive
• HIAS Immigration and Citizenship
  • Welcome the stranger and help them become our neighbors
• The Knapp School
  • Organize a backpack drive for pre-teens and teens
• Response for Teens
  • Collect hygiene products for our Response for Teens program
• Mental Health
  • Support our Community Counseling Centers 

Support a B’nai Mitzvah!

Help someone’s mitzvah project reach its goal. Click on the name of the person you wish to support.

• Sam Seidler
  • Support Sam on his journey to help refugees!

For more, please contact Benjamin Weiss, Development Associate, Volunteers and Events at 773.467.3821.