In 2018, I wrote a column for the Badger Herald, one of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student newspapers. Determined to correct the narrative on the now-infamous nazi salute in Baraboo, Wisconsin, I discussed how some symbols, despite their contexts, cannot be sanitized. They cannot be isolated from their history, despite our best — or worst — […]

“How are things on campus? Are you and your students safe?” We’ve heard those questions a lot over the past year, as concerned community members read troubling accounts in the news.   Certainly, there are reasons for concern. What might be a surprise to the community is that there are also reasons for hope. From our […]

Hey everyone! It’s Eitan Mizrachi and Tom Ram, the shin shinim of 2023-2024.  Over the past year, we experienced it all – we felt excited, sad, grateful, united, and emotional, but no matter what we were together as one strong community.    So how can we summarize such a crazy year in only one article? We […]

Finding opportunities to perform with the flute is not unusual for Hazzan Jeremy Stein of Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid. But he recently set his sights higher than usual – on the roof of the synagogue, specifically.  On Aug. 4, Stein and his jazz combo – name pending – took to the roof of the […]

The community will get a chance to hear the stories of descendants of Holocaust survivors when the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center invites The Braid, a Jewish story company, to Milwaukee in September.  The center will host the theater’s show “Remembrance of Things Present” at the Ivy House at 4 p.m. on […]

It’s painful. We, the Jewish people, children of genocide, are seeing the Jewish homeland accused of genocide.  It cannot be. But it is.  The word “genocide” gets tossed around, on social media and elsewhere, possibly without a lot of interest in the meaning of the term. Emotion takes center stage. This may be grounded in […]