MILWAUKEE – While the overturning of Roe vs. Wade took many by surprise, Rabbi Bonnie Margulis saw it coming.   Margulis, with decades of experience as a leader in the pro-choice movement, was preparing for a post-Roe world even before a draft of the Supreme Court decision was leaked. Now, the possibility of a post-Roe […]

  Ten years after his Milwaukee Jewish Day School trip to Israel, Zach Sinykin was there again, planning a presidential visit.   Milwaukee-area native Sinykin, a 23-year-old advance associate for the Biden administration, helped organize the President’s recent trip to Israel from July 13 to 15, 2022.   “In Israel, it’s a very big deal for the […]

  The news trucks are gone, the police tape has disappeared, and the quaint shops have reopened in Highland Park, Illinois, as the community finds its new normal even as the intense agony of the Fourth of July parade mass shooting that left seven dead and dozens injured remains fresh in many hearts and minds.   […]

  Tables Across Borders, a local volunteer-led initiative, is featuring Ukrainian cuisine Aug. 8 at the Lazy Susan restaurant in Milwaukee. The event’s family of chefs are the Stanishevkas, from the local Jewish community.   The co-founder of Tables Across Borders, Kai Gardner-Mishlove, runs that initiative to highlight the cuisine of local refugee chefs.   The organization […]

Coming events for August, 2022, includes the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Aug. 11.

  The stakes will be historically high when voters head to the polls and elect representatives to state and federal offices during the midterm elections this fall after a tumultuous summer of landmark decisions on gun and abortion rights by the United States Supreme Court and the decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on voting […]