MILWAUKEE – Werner Froehling lived for decades in a modest house on Locust Street, near Oakland Avenue. He never married or had children, just cared for his parents, who’d escaped with him from the Nazis during World War II. He attended Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun regularly for many years. He never got involved much with […]

The founders of the Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale are coming together again for the first time in decades. The Chorale, a Jewish musical group, is set to perform a concert with those original founders on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid in Glendale from 7:30-10 p.m. The performance is free and […]

Jerry Benjamin, an activist for Jewish educational and political causes and former president of Milwaukee Jewish Federation, died in Boston on May 11, 2019. He was 67. “Jerry was bigger than life,” said his longtime business partner and friend Bruce Arbit. “There’s no one Jerry met that wasn’t impacted and affected. His creativity knew no […]

The Milwaukee-area Walk for Israel, the largest annual pro-Israel event in the state, is returning to Downtown Milwaukee this year. It will be led by a new ambulance beforeit’s put into service in Israel. The walk this year will also offer music in “silence,” a nod to a time of year when some observant Jews […]

The local commemoration of Yom HaZikaron, the Israeli Memorial Day, is to focus this year on fallen soldiers whose final resting place is unknown. Although loss through military service is a horror for any family, not having remains can create its own kind of grief. For families, it can be “like a wound that doesn’t […]

MILWAUKEE – A man with a swastika sign paraded back and forth beside a pro-Israel event at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee on Monday, May 6, 2019. The event, which attracted 200-250 students throughout the day, celebrated the anniversary of Israel’s birth this month. The celebration was sponsored by Students Supporting Israel at the […]