Thursday June 21, 2018 | 8 Tammuz 5778
Overnight summer camp is one of the most pivotal experiences in a young person’s life. When campers return home, as parents can attest, they regale their families with camp-adventure stories for weeks after. For parents who attended overnight camp as youths, their children’s stories often conjure fond memories of their own. For parents who never […]
MILWAUKEE – Shay Pilnik, local Holocaust educator, asked about 35 kids a question: What does “standing by” mean? In the very back of the room, 14-year-old Melissa’s hand flew up, followed by an answer: “To not do anything at all.” Yes, said Pilnik, executive director of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center of […]
MILWAUKEE — Judy Winnik never imagined she would return to the Milwaukee area after she left for college. But as she neared retirement, her mother was aging, and she decided to return to Bayside to help her. “I just realized it’s in our Jewish values to take care of, to honor, the elderly,” Winnik […]
Forty years ago, two Midwestern high-school students got the idea to interview celebrities and the result is a new book of moments with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Lucille Ball, among others. “Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends,” is a collection of 20th century celebrities’ profiles which draws from archives, tapes […]
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun is featured in a new book about the oldest existing Jewish congregation in each of the 50 U.S. states – plus Washington, D.C.; Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “America’s Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community & History,” recently published by Fonthill Media, is by Julian H. Preisler. Jewish Museum Milwaukee, […]
WHITEFISH BAY – The Milwaukee Jewish Artists’ Lab is ready to show you its results this year. Art reflecting this year’s theme – “Crossing the Threshold” – will be displayed at a free opening reception for the Milwaukee Jewish Artists’ Lab. The reception is slated for Sunday, June 3 at 4 p.m., with a program […]
The sixth and eighth graders of Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid in Glendale and the third and eighth graders of Nofei Arbel School in Kibbutz Ginossar, Israel were jumping and singing together on Jan. 18. Well, kind of together. “They had a Skype conference,” explained Lori Abramson. “The Nofei Arbel kids learned a Tu […]
While Shorewood native Lex Rofes is not following in his parent’s footsteps, as both are attorneys, his chosen profession does have to do with laws. The promulgations he focuses his life’s work on are those contained in the Torah, not necessarily the Constitution. A third-year rabbinical student at ALEPH, The Alliance for Jewish Renewal, […]
Think about it. What is our greatest challenge? We scoured the Internet for ideas and came up with assimilation, anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian issues, Iran and divisiveness within Judaism as some of the top challenges. What do you think?
Carrying the Ben-Gurion name was not a childhood burden for the grandson of Israel’s first prime minister. “For me and my two sisters, it was a normal life,” said Alon Ben-Gurion, who grew up in Israel. “The kids in my neighborhood were like, ‘If you can play soccer, come with us.’ They didn’t care […]
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