Thursday April 18, 2024 | 10 Nisan 5784
GLENDALE – Rabbi Avremi Schapiro bellowed, “Guys, the hummus is going to rock!” A bellow was necessary, over the hubbub of multiple teenagers in conversation, as they sliced, trimmed and mixed. The Kosher Cooking Club at Nicolet High School made shawarma, hummus and Israeli salad on Jan. 11. This was only the club’s third meeting, […]
Enrollment has grown in Milwaukee-area Jewish preschools, day schools, and religious schools, signaling an apparent end to a pandemic-era dip, according to a census of education by the Coalition for Jewish Learning of Milwaukee Jewish Federation. The pandemic took its toll, dropping Jewish educational enrollment from 1,617 in 2019-2020, to 1,377 in 2020-2021. That stark […]
Led by Professor Andrea Schneider, Marquette University program is an ‘inspiration’ . . For Cole Altman, Israel has never been a foreign place. A Jewish kid from Fox Point, the 25-year-old had twice been to the country before heading back this March as part of a Marquette University Law School seminar centered around conflict resolution […]
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein of Glendale has been awarded the 2018-19 Crown graduate fellowship from the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. Stein is a PhD candidate in Musicology in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern. Her research focuses on Jewish identity in classical music, with a focus on 19th […]
Carley S. Mitz Carley S. Mitz will receive a doctor of pharmacy degree from Concordia University, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of Howard and Merele Mitz of Mequon. Carley is the younger sister of Lindsay, who is also a doctor of pharmacy, and a twin sister to Cacey, who has a doctor of pharmacy degree […]
Harvard Law School David S. M. Levine of Fox Point graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, class of 2016. Also a graduate of the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, David will clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. starting this fall.
Seventy-eight years after the beginning of the Holocaust, I returned to Poland and Lithuania as the descendant of immigrants forced into exile. A group of University of Wisconsin students traveled alongside Dr. Karl Loewenstein and Dr. Shay Pilnik – professor of history at UW Oshkosh and director of the Holocaust Education Resource Center, respectively – […]
Aaron Holman, a graduating senior at Homestead High School of Mequon, has been named one of more than 4,000 candidates in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.3 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in 2016. Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is one of […]
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