This summer, St. Charles County will celebrate its diversity at the fourth annual music and cultural event, the St. Charles Jewish Festival. The festival will offer a unique recognition of the music, traditions and foods that Jewish people celebrate and enjoy. The festival will be held Sunday, August 25 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event, the region’s only annual Jewish Festival, is organized by the Chabad Jewish Center of St. Charles County and The Gan St. Charles Preschool.
The festival will include upbeat Jewish music, family entertainment and traditional Jewish foods, including kosher Israeli cuisine. Admission, music, and kids activities will be at no charge. The food will be for sale.
According to the most recent community study, there are nearly 6,000 Jews in St. Charles County and 41 percent of Jewish households in the County have at least one child living at home. The St. Charles Jewish Festival was born in 2019, when Chabad gathered a group of about 100 people in a nearby park. Organizers saw potential to build on its success and decided to make the festival a much larger, open-to-all, community-wide event. Nearly 3,800 people participated in last year's festival.
