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  MADISON – The man who changed policing all over the world sat with a cup of coffee in his apartment here, beneath a framed print of four klezmer band players. “I have been trying to become a full time zaidie, a grandfather,” Herman Goldstein said. “I’m 86-years-old. But I’m stuck. I still have a […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s adviser for world communities said in an op-ed that critics of the nation-state law that passed last month in the Knesset often are “mistaken and misinformed.” “The accusations about the new law’s effects on Israeli democracy have no connection to the actual content or context of the law,” Sara Greenberg wrote in […]

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Jewish Federation is increasing allocations to local agencies, Israel and other overseas work, thanks to an increase in Annual Campaign results this year. “The pie is growing and for that we’re grateful,” said Hannah Rosenthal, president and CEO of Milwaukee Jewish Federation. “But it’s nowhere near enough to meet community needs, and […]

  Rabbi Joel Alter, the new spiritual leader for Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid in Glendale, said he’s really not so unusual. “What’s different about my biography — I’m gay, I’m a single dad — first of all it’s not so unusual,” Alter said. “But to the extent it is unusual, I bring that with […]

  Rabbinical school required Rabbi Jenn Mangold to take a class on clinical pastoral education just once. She took it twice. “It was my favorite part,” she said – not just the class itself, but also the responsibilities that came with it. Mangold, who graduated in May from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of […]