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2012 Milwaukee Jewish Educator of the Year Sherry Blumberg congratulated Rabbi Jay R. Brickman, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Sinai, for being the one person to give a presentation at all 13 Days of Discovery to date. The event took place Jan. 15.
Milwaukee-area Jews number 30,000: 2011 study
The new “Jewish Community Study of Greater Milwaukee 2011” found that Jewish population of the greater Milwaukee area is about 30,000 people.
Opinions
D'var Torah: Not the what, but the when of 'tebowing' is an issue
I find no fault with turning to God by professional athletes. Let them offer prayers for long completions, touchdowns, and even victory, and thanks when those events happen.
Islamist movements cast shadow over Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been the chief beneficiaries of the collapse of longstanding authoritarian repressive regimes across North Africa.
Holocaust analogies run amok
Never did I think that we would have to speak about the abject trivialization of the Holocaust by a group of Jews living in Israel. But that is exactly what happened last month.
Jews should care about Israeli Arabs’ rights
Because I love Israel deeply, I was long concerned that issues of human and civil rights were raised only by progressive organizations, both in Israel and abroad. It was long overdue for the Jewish communal establishment to understand why the rights of Israeli Arabs should be a priority for anyone concerned with Israel’s future.
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MJF requesting minor modifications at Karl Campus
The Milwaukee Jewish Federation will go to the Whitefish Bay Village Board on Feb. 6 to propose minor modifications to the development agreement between the village and MJF regarding the Karl Jewish Community Campus.
Adelman was Jewish community visionary
Albert B. “Ollie” Adelman was a visionary, a leader, and a truly extraordinary man, according to Jewish community leaders who knew and worked with him.
Israeli family is group of ‘do it yourself’ diplomats
The tendency to “Do it yourself” has been thought a stereotypically American trait. But Israelis also have a “Do it yourself” value in their culture, whether it comes to military tactics and weapons, building high tech businesses, making the desert bloom — or doing diplomacy and public relations. At least, the latter is what Oksana and Chami Zemach of Moshav Kadesh Barnea decided to do.
Transition Team members are ‘talented and caring’
The Milwaukee Jewish Federation Transition Team comprises 14 members of the community charged to lead the next phase of the MJF’s Reimagining process. Three members were recently interviewed about their experience on the team.
Jewish musician finds that kids can enjoy jazz
In the age of rock and rap music, jazz is “old fogey” stuff that couldn’t possibly appeal to modern children. Right? Wrong, says Lisa Yves, a Massachusetts-based Jewish singer-pianist-songwriter and educator.
World News
Why do some Jews see Obama as sinister?
A recent Atlanta Jewish Times editorial was an extreme expression of a viewpoint that carries great currency among Obama’s Jewish critics: that the president represents a serious danger to Jews and to Israel.
Studies put U.S. Jews at up to 6.6 million
More than 6 million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies.
Knesset launches caucus to strengthen ties to U.S. Jewry
The Knesset inaugurated a caucus to strengthen Israeli lawmakers’ knowledge and sensitivity to the American Jewish community.
After attacks in New Jersey, security and anxiety up
As Jews in some northern New Jersey communities made their way to synagogue on the Sabbath of Jan. 12-13, the scene was not typical.
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