Annette Schwartzman, a retired attorney, said there’s a lot that’s good in her Grandparents Chavurah, which is co-organized by Mequon Jewish Preschool and Ovation Communities.  Ovation Communities is a local Jewish faith-based organization, offering a continuum of senior living and care options. Mequon Jewish Preschool and Ovation Communities have combined efforts to help grandparents […]

  As tragedy unfolded at the Ukraine-Polish border, two women from Jewish Milwaukee went there to see it, understand it, and report back.   Representatives of Milwaukee Jewish Federation traveled to the Ukrainian border in Poland to witness what has become the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, in the wake of Russia’s bloody Ukraine […]

  Love watching Shark Tank? Wisconsinites can also view a local, more positive take on the hit television show.  Every week, viewers across Wisconsin can tune in for a new episode of “Project Pitch It,” a show where Wisconsin entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to a panel of leading business moguls and win awards to […]

  Anti-Jewish incidents are on the rise, including the Jan. 21 synagogue hostage-taking in Texas, antisemitic graffiti in Chicago and hateful fliers distributed in Wisconsin.   A 4% decrease in reported antisemitic incidents from 2020-2021, in Wisconsin, is the thinnest of silver linings. The reality is that Wisconsin antisemitic incidents are up 459%, from 2015 to […]

  The Milwaukee-area Walk for Israel is back and set to happen in-person again, for the first time since the pandemic abruptly shuttered Wisconsin in March 2020.   The event marks Yom HaAtzmaut, the Israeli Independence Day, and it has historically been the largest annual pro-Israel event in the state.    But the community last walked in-person […]

  As an Israeli, Yom HaAtzmaut fascinates me.  Not because it is the one day that Israelis celebrate freedom, independence and bask in the sweet taste of self-determination. But rather because Yom HaAtzmaut mirrors the story of the State of Israel since its establishment, 74 years ago.   Yom HaAtzmaut begins 24 hours prior to the […]