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 […]

The Federation has been responding expertly to crisis and is ready for whatever comes next, even as the nonprofit supports joyful Jewish living in Milwaukee — this was the message when Milwaukee Jewish Federation held its Annual Meeting on Aug 15, 2024.   A new board of directors was elected, accomplishments were celebrated, and Dr. Judy […]

Milwaukee Jewish Federation and partners from throughout the community are planning a commemoration of the attacks of Oct. 7, set for the one-year anniversary, which this year falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  The commemoration is set for Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.   The horrific day of the attacks was a turning point in modern […]