The round tables were draped with linen. A cantor sang Hebrew melodies at the dais. It was all just a bit of something, a gesture. No amount of honor could possibly be enough.  Interviewing at her round dinner table, Faina Balterova remembered when she was a girl in Ukraine, shocked to have just learned that […]

  MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials report they have taken action, “to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” after the Chronicle contacted them for comment on anti-Israel emails sent by its Women’s & Gender Studies Department.  The emails, promoting off-campus, anti-Israel events, arguably fanned the flames of antisemitism at a time when Jewish students nationwide […]

The following message was emailed from University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to all students, faculty and staff on Oct. 11, 2023.  Dear UW–Madison community,  I stand with our community in condemning the vicious terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians last weekend.  I mourn for those lost. I pray for those injured and abducted. […]

Lexie Niskanen, a college student, stood at the front of the gathering and urged people to check on one another.  “There’s a lot of things we can do as students and as a community in these negative times. First, we can check in on each other and make sure we are not alone,” she said. […]

Dr. Bat–Sheva Tzadok, an Israeli doctor who helped solidify Israel’s relationship with Jewish Wisconsin, has a request for the world: Don’t forget the hostages, not any of them.  War and tension will distract, but she said: “We have to try not forget these people. These people have to remain in our hearts all the time.”  […]

When Avner Porat and Meni Godard met each other as teenage soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, back in the late 1960s, they would sometimes kick a soccer ball around, blow off some steam.  When they weren’t doing that, they were training – in the Golan, soon after the 1967 Six-Day War – to find […]