Milwaukee Jewish Federation is issuing $20,000 in Jewish Education Innovation Grants for the 2019-20 school year, for programming including a college-level Jewish Bioethics course and a Teen Jewish Art League. In 2017, one of the recommendations of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s newly formed Jewish Education Task Force was to create the innovation grant fund. It’s […]

MILWAUKEE — Great cities have inspired dozens of memorable films. New York has its “Manhattan,” Rome its “Roman Holiday.” And now Milwaukee has its own cinematic love letter in the form of “Give Me Liberty.” Directed and co-written by Milwaukee transplant and Russian Jewish immigrant Kirill Mikhanovsky, the film follows Vic, a hapless young Russian […]

FOX POINT – The Brooklyn, New York-based Friendship Circle has programs throughout North America and elsewhere, pairing volunteer teens with kids who have special needs, among other programming. Over the summer of 2017, the local Friendship Circle executive director, Rabbi Levi Stein, and his partner and wife Leah Stein, decided to take that international mission […]

FOX POINT – Contemplating her life’s work, Cantor Karen Berman said it has been so very “relational.” As in relationships.  “I get to give them a hug in the hall,” she said. “I have loved them and in return they have loved me.” Berman is to “complete” her “tenure” — she’s not a fan of […]

PHOTO: Rabbi Dena Feingold of Kenosha at the recently renovated Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha on May 1, 2018. During the month of August, we will transition from reading Bemidbar, the Book of Numbers, to Devarim, the Book of Deuteronomy. It is often stated that the last word of each book of the Torah points […]

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