MILWAUKEE – Residents asked for positive public art, so positivity is what local artist LaNia Sproles poured into the new Jewish Community Pantry Mural.   On Aug. 31, 2021, Sproles gave a tour of the mural she painted onto a wall outside the Jewish Community Pantry, 2900 W. Center St.  The mural was funded by […]

  Wisconsinite Julia Appel, 19, recently completed a gap year, including spring and summer in Israel, before starting as an undergraduate at Tufts University. She wrote this article about her participation in a four-month program in the fall and summer called Project TEN with NEXT. The program offers young adults the chance to “give of […]

  MILWAUKEE — Have you ever wanted to learn more about Torah, but weren’t sure how to start?   Perhaps you have a cursory knowledge of the main figures, like Adam and Eve or Avraham and Sarah, but outside of few basic details, lessons gleaned from Hebrew school or a half-remembered sermon, you’re not really sure […]

  MILWAUKEE — If you’ve ever talked to older relatives, perhaps those who grew up in the 1930s or 40s, you might have heard them mention the “rag man” or the “junk man.”  Today the image of the neighborhood rag man remains fixed in history, almost cliché.  But a new exhibit opening this month at […]

     Yinam Cohen, the new consul general of Israel to the Midwest, has arrived with goals.   He said he’d like to reach Americans who have drifted away from the traditional United States-Israel alliance. He wants to oppose antisemitism. He wants to better connect the Midwest and Israel economically.   And having arrived in Chicago this […]

  This month the Milwaukee Jewish Federation is launching a first-of-its-kind development program for Milwaukee Jewish communal lay leaders: the Gerald z”l and Louise Stein Leadership Institute. The goal is to provide volunteers with the knowledge, skills and peer network necessary to most effectively guide local organizations. The institute will combine national courses led virtually […]