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Yom HaAtzmaut

The Milwaukee Jewish community’s celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, took place at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center on April 21.

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Yom HaZikaron

The Milwaukee Jewish community commemorated on April 15 Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for the fallen in wars and terrorist attacks. 

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Yom HaShoah

Photographs from Milwaukee's Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) commemoration.

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Chronicling History

This photograph from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee Archives was taken at the bar mitzvah celebration of Nathan Krasno in October 1934 at the O.K.U.V. (Oestreicher Kranken Unterstuetzungs Verein, Austrian Sick Benefit Society) hall in Milwaukee. 

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“An Evening for Uri”

At an event organized in partnership with Jewish National Fund Wisconsin Region, Israeli Joni Liwerant (right) spoke at two pre-Yom HaZikaron events in Milwaukee. 

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Meeting and opening

Barbara Beckert, director of the Milwaukee office of Disability Rights Wisconsin, was the keynote speaker at the Jewish Family Services annual meeting and the grand opening of Bradley Crossing Supportive Housing Community and the Lois and Tom Dolan Village of Brown Deer Community Center on March 21.

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Rube Goldberg lives!

Hillel Academy fifth grader Elie Gelfman (left) and fourth grader Natan Bushee work on assembling a “Rube Goldberg machine” during a recent project for Hillel’s middle school students. 

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League champs

The Warshafsky Law Office team was the champion of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center 2012-2013 men’s basketball league.

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A gift for "Superman"

Children at the religious school of Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha recently participated in a “Giving a Helping Hand Day” in April.

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