Welcome to our Rosh Hashanah special section! 

This year, we choose to hear from you. 

Welcome to our Rosh Hashanah special section for 5787. 

This year, we asked a cross-section of people from our amazing community what they choose for the New Year. We didn’t give much guidance on what that means – we wanted to see what would come forward.  

The results have been really something. It was so fun to open each email coming in with an article, like ripping into a gift-wrapped present each time. I really recommend you sit with a cup of coffee and enjoy these moments with our neighbors, over these next several pages. My thanks to all of them. We may do it again next year – feel free to let me know if you think that’s a good idea or if you want to participate. 

There’s so much that I could “choose” for the New Year, but in this space, I’m going to choose to ask you, please, to interact with your friendly, neighborhood Chronicle. We want to help keep our community strong and that’s part of how we all get to that promised land, I’m sure of it. I haven’t got 613 ways to do it, but I bring you ten: 

1. Are you working on something Jewish for the community? Are you aware of someone in the community doing amazing things? Maybe it belongs in the Chronicle. Yes, I’m interested to hear from those of us on Milwaukee’s North Shore, but also all of Southeast Wisconsin, Madison, Green Bay, Appleton, and anywhere else cheesy! Observant or secular, we love all Jews! Send me an email, well before it happens, so we can talk about the tools I have in my toolbox to be helpful.  
2. We prefer to cover things before they happen as much as possible, so we can act as a user guide to the community, but if you’ve got fun photos of things that recently happened, send them in, please. We love to run standalone people photos! We need names with the faces, spelled correctly of course, with dates and what’s happening in the high-resolution shots. 
3. The Chronicle does not just “cover” the community. We seek to “serve” it. This opens us up to work on news that is not just about the Jewish community, but is also of interest to the Jewish community. What this translates into is that while we’re not looking to cover tons of antisemitism in the Chronicle (we don’t need to amplify that), there sometimes can be legitimate purpose in covering items ignored by the mainstream media. If there’s something the Jewish community may want to know about, I’d love for you to raise it with me for discussion. 
4. We accept letters to the editor and opinion pieces from the public. Also, poetry, very short stories, etc. If you are part of our Wisconsin Jewish community, feel free to reach out. 
5. We take some events from the Milwaukee Jewish Federation Community Calendar, for our Coming Events listing, but you can also send us suggested events directly. 
6. We want to appropriately honor those who have passed – in our Obituaries section. We run obituaries from local funeral homes, but we also accept direct submissions from the public. You can also send in unveilings, workplace announcements, and life or career accomplishment announcements.  
7. We’re running a monthly archive photo on page 2. If you’ve got more info on a photo that we can add to our archives, please let us know. 
8. The Chronicle internship is one of the premier journalism training programs in the country. We get hundreds of applications from around the nation annually for three slots – two semesters and a summer each year. After 11 years of this, our “graduates” now include working journalists (see page 5, story by a Chronicle grad at the Forward!). We prefer students who are interested seriously in a career in journalism for our remote program. If you’re a local student, with a vocational interest in journalism, strong work ethic, and great ability, reach out! 
9. Please shop our advertisers and tell them you saw their ad in the Chronicle! It really helps. 
10. Consider running an ad! The Chronicle is well read. People stop me and talk to me about it all the time. The fabulous Jonathan Weeks, business manager for the Chronicle, can help with that: JonathanW@MilwaukeeJewish.org. 

Here’s a bonus 11th way to help and get connected: The Chronicle is free. Subscribe, give to our Friends campaign when you see our requests, and pass it along to a friend.  

Our goal is to provide a safe, meaningful and newsy space for Jewish Wisconsin. Thanks for being a part of that. Reach me, Editor Rob Golub, at RobG@MilwaukeeJewish.org or write the general mailbox at Chronicle@MilwaukeeJewish.org.  

We are here for the community and that’s you. 

Rob Golub 

Editor