The Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association this past June elected Lynne Pearson to be its first president.
The organization’s board members include: Rodney Bourrage, Kathy Gridley, Moshe Katz, Jamie Miller, and Kathy Wheatley. Ginny Gendelman is executive director.
Kipp Friedman, Midwest coordinator for The Jewish Lens, announced that the program will be returning to Milwaukee for school year 2010-11, and he hopes to expand it to include more schools.
This program, featured in the April Chronicle and in exhibits at the Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC and Jewish Museum Milwaukee, uses photography as a tool for Jewish education.
An organizational meeting for educators is scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Coalition for Jewish Learning library. The program will culminate in an exhibit in May 2011.
The Jewish Lens is offered through the CJL, the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, and is made possible by a grant from the Covenant Foundation.
The Milwaukee Jewish Day School announced that in the coming school year, it will have two classrooms for first through fourth grades, thereby having about one teacher for ten students.
The school also announced several appointments: Moshe Katz, Jewish studies coordinator; Brian King, technology coordinator; Linda Holifield, marketing and development coordinator; and Felice Lieb, drama coordinator.
The school has also hired four new teachers.
A new building for the Chabad House in Madison was slated to be dedicated on Aug. 29. It is the product of a $1.3 million capital campaign that began in 2007.
At its annual meeting at the Jewish Home and Care Center on Aug. 24, the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning elected the following new officers to serve for two years:
President, Rabbi Steven H. Adams; vice president, Rabbi David Brusin; corresponding secretary, Eric Pullin; recording secretary, Sherry H. Blumberg.
In addition, the society elected the following directors to serve for two years: James J. Ansfield, Rabbi Joshua Ben-Gideon, Sandra Bisciglia, DeWitt Clinton, Robert D. Eiseman, Stanley A. Holland, Lynne H. Kleinman, Lucille Rosenberg, Susan B. Silverstein, and Beatrice Strick.
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