Hillel Milwaukee Student Board has gotten more active and has been planning and running events with a new sense of independence, according to Hillel Milwaukee Executive Director Deb Fendrich.  “They are actually putting programs on the calendar and are bringing us opportunities,” Fendrich said. “The student board said, we want to do Havdalah and […]

  Professor Joel Berkowitz, who is director of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, asked President Joe Biden about “white supremacy and conspiracies that align with it.”   Biden visited Milwaukee in mid-February. At a CNN Town Hall event with Biden at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on Feb. […]

  People over 60 can take college classes for free, and one local resident isn’t letting that opportunity go to waste.  Wisconsin residents over the age of 60 can audit classes at any of the University of Wisconsin’s campuses for free. Auditors sit in on class, but they don’t have to do homework or take […]

    Tuesday, March 2  The Countdown  The Countdown is a series of conversations led by Community Shaliach Uria Roth. This session will focus on political right for the fourth round of recent Israeli elections with anchor Lital Shemesh. Tuesday, March 2, at 3 p.m. Other upcoming events in this series are: “State, religion, and […]

  MILWAUKEE — If you’ve wondered just how, or whether to, discuss the Holocaust with a younger child, Simone Schweber has a workshop that should be able to help you.  The Goodman Professor of Education and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Schweber will be working with the Jewish Museum Milwaukee this […]

  Here, we bring you 10 of the biggest local Jewish news stories of the last 100 years. It’s part of how we’re celebrating our 100th anniversary. We’ve created this list looking backwards, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.  Would you have picked different headlines? Let us know! We like to hear from you.  Chronicle […]