Dr. Jeffrey Green was hired at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center as medical director of the Emergency Department, a position he served in from 2010-2014. He then chose to return to full-time patient care. More recently, he’s been flying between Israel and Milwaukee about every two months, a routine he’s fallen into since last year. […]

Two years ago I took a job as an ER doctor at Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, halfway between Tel Aviv and Gaza, in the first new hospital in Israel in 40 years. I do not know why I am OK with this, far from my comfort zone. Wrestling with language and with life and death […]

It’s a question every camp today must answer. How should technology be managed? In prior coverage, we reported on rules for cell phone and electronics use at different camps. Now, we take a look at how those rules are employed at the Steve and Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC, an overnight Jewish summer camp […]

MILWAUKEE – They met after school one day, last spring at Rufus King International High School.  About 40 student volunteers gathered up 1,500 messages of love and then – everyone, go! The notes were the response of a school interfaith club, Wisconsin United in Love, to a single incident of antisemitism at school. When a […]

MILWAUKEE –  At Rufus King International High School, Jewish students, Muslim students and others are working together for mutual understanding. They do so through a school club called Wisconsin United in Love. It’s a club that would be a good model for other schools, according to Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Hours Against Hate program coordinator, Andrea Bernstein. She’s […]

MILWAUKEE — There’s some risk, but the U.S. economy is strong and could weather the current worldwide storm, according to a top economic forecaster. He made the prediction as others are cautioning that an economic downturn could be on the horizon, if only because the last recession was a long time ago by economics standards. […]