What other kind of publication contains:
Features about fun family events, like one family’s annual Chanukah latke-making contest;
News about the Jewish community, such as the negotiations between Whitefish Bay and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation over the Karl Jewish Community Campus;
State news of or affecting the Jewish community, like an anti-Semitic incident in Algoma;
National issues like school choice, Israeli issues such as prospects for peace; international issues including the status of Jewish communities throughout the world;
News of Jewish culture in all its variety — movies, plays, music, books, art;
And even cosmic issues like whether Judaism can accept the theory of evolution?
You will find all these and more in the pages of The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. That range has been in the newspaper since its founding in 1921. And it has won numerous Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for its work.
The format and technology of The Chronicle have changed many times since then. So has its ownership — it was purchased by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation in 1972.
But whether published in “hot lead” type or a website’s electronic pixels, weekly or (since 2009) monthly, The Chronicle has sought to present to the Wisconsin Jewish community news of the Jewish universe in all its local, national and international diversity — and not only to report it, but also to celebrate it.
As was said at an American Jewish Press Association meeting in Philadelphia in 2012, the mission of the Jewish press is to provide “information and affirmation” — important knowledge of the community, plus a sense of pride in, and an infusion of enthusiasm for, Jewish life.
That is The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle’s mission, and it is sticking to it.
For more information, visit www.JewishChronicle.org.
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