Good Deeds Day, an international event that was born in Israel and then spread to more than 100 countries, is coming to Milwaukee.   Good Deeds Day started in Israel with just 7,000 volunteers in 2007. In recent years, the annual Good Deeds Day has attracted around 4 million volunteers annually, often working on community-improvement projects […]

They were dreaming of America. They came so close.  “There are clients who we were expecting to receive – we were informed that they were in route. And we’re hearing from community members too, of folks who were enroute to the airport, or maybe had already started some of their travel, meaning that they were […]

In January, Tzipi Altman-Shafer, Vice President of Jewish Communal Life and Learning, and Susie Rosengarten, Associate Director of the Israel Center, traveled to Israel to visit sites funded by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation over the past year. Over five days, they visited more than 30 locations across the South and North, witnessing firsthand the impact […]

The Peltz Center for Jewish Life now houses a new Chabad teen lounge for highschoolers of the Homestead Jewish Club to use for events and recreation. The Club is a chapter of CTeen, an international network of Jewish teens.   The newly remodeled lounge is equipped with a Nintendo gaming console, a ping-pong table, a pool […]

Merzy Eisenberg, a  founding Hebrew teacher at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, will headline the dozens of area educators who will be honored at this year’s Salute to Jewish Educators awards ceremony held each year by Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Coalition for Jewish Learning.   Eisenberg will be honored with the Lifetime Impact Award for her 22 […]

MILWAUKEE – Jews have been immigrants and have sought asylum for centuries, said Roberta S. Clark, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Milwaukee Jewish Federation.  “Jewish religious and ethical tradition calls upon us to welcome the stranger,” she told the local media from a podium at Milwaukee City Hall.  Clark spoke at […]