Chai Lights: Remembering Kristallnacht

(From left) Rachel Baum, professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; cantorial soloist David Blumberg; Ahmed Quereshi of the Islamic Center in Milwaukee; and Rabbi Steven Adams of Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha were among the participants in the ceremony remembering Kristallnacht on Nov. 6 at the memorial to the Holocaust on Prospect Ave. and at the Jewish Home and Care Center. Kristallnacht was the nation-wide Nazi German anti-Jewish riot of Nov. 9-10, 1938. Baum and Richard Lux, professor emeritus of the Sacred Heart School of Theology, co-chaired the event, which was organized by the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a program of the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Photo courtesy of Joan Champion, HERC coordinator.