The Jewish Federation of Cleveland announced that it raised a record $39,035,018 for its 2026 Campaign for Jewish Needs at the campaign’s closing event on Dec. 8 at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland’s Mendy and Ita Klein Oakwood Campus in Cleveland Heights. The 2025 campaign raised $38,087,175.

The Federation’s annual Campaign for Jewish Needs raises funds to support institutions that serve the local Jewish community as well as Jews around the world. The 2026 campaign’s grand total was raised through 9,036 gifts representing 12,094 donors.

“This campaign isn’t the work of one person, but of an entire community standing shoulder to shoulder, showing up for one another and choosing, once again, to build a stronger Jewish future together,” Amir Jaffa, the Federation’s general campaign chair,

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