InPamsKitchen Glendale resident Pam Stein is known to thousands of online followers as the voice of InPamsKitchen. Stein’s recipes have been featured in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and AARP The Magazine. For more recipes and ideas, follow @inpamskitchen on Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) or TikTok. Yield: 12 latkes Ingredients: For the latkes: 4 Cups Jicama, coarsely shredded 2/3 Cup Yellow onion, coarsely shredded 2 Large Eggs, slightly...
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun held a Kugel Cookoff on Oct. 20, with more than two dozen kugels entered from throughout the community. This recipe for Dintza’s Kugel is delicious and easy to make. It took second place for the People’s Choice Award, as voted on by attendees of the Kugel Cookoff. Dintza’s Kugel Chef: Diane […]
Here’s the award-winning recipe for “Just Like Bubby’s” Vegan Kugel. It took second place for the Judge’s Choice Award, as voted on by attendees of the Kugel Cookoff. Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun held the Kugel Cookoff on Oct. 20, with more than two dozen kugels entered from throughout the community. “Just Like Bubby’s” Vegan Kugel […]
Barbara Glazer knew something was missing. She had prepared a kugel for Rosh Hashanah, and the recipe wasn’t quite right. It was a test run, as Glazer was preparing to enter a kugel cook-off at Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun in River Hills, where she is a member. Glazer said she has a passion for food […]
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun held a Kugel Cookoff on Sunday, Oct. 20, with more than two dozen kugels entered from throughout the community. Attendees were asked to try and vote on kugels, as were a panel of judges, including Dan Jacobs, who owns local restaurants DanDan and Ester Ev and was a finalist on the […]
A nonprofit focused on Israel education across America has launched a conflict education program, and among the participants are several educators from Jewish Milwaukee. The iCenter’s November cohort participants include Tova Blasberg, Camp Interlaken JCC assistant director; Tehila Cohen, Camp Interlaken JCC (seasonally) village director; Colleen Coveney, Milwaukee Jewish Day School Upper School social studies […]
“Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman,” by Ann Diamont Koffsky, illustrated by Abigail Rajunov, published by Little Bee Books This spectacular picture book will inspire students to hold onto their values. Estee Ackerman loves being Jewish, loves the holy day of Shabbat, and loves ping-pong. When she makes it into the final […]
Lloyd Levin gave this speech beside a bridge in Trévé, France, known for its ties to World War II history. During the event on Aug. 4, 2024, he paused repeatedly so a translator could speak his words in French. Lloyd and Sheri Levin attended a total of five related events that day, marking liberation, lives […]
Lloyd and Sheri Levin went on a trip this summer that they say they will never forget, to honor a relative alongside the people of France. Here are six things to know about it: * * * * * * Read more about the Levins’ trip, “Wisconsinites in France honored a solider.”
Preschool teacher Anthony Nash, a Milwaukee native, is also a talented artist. He went to college at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee not to study education, but art and design. He switched paths after an internship in college showed his that teaching might be his calling. He interned at Discovery World, where he designed projects for children […]
Last year, right after the Oct. 7 attack, Congregation Sinai Rabbi David Cohen called his friend Fatih Harpci, a religion professor at Carthage College. The pair of local religious leaders were about to teach a course about Judaism and Islam for the second year. The rabbi asked: Was this the right time to gather members […]
Rabbi Wes Kalmar’s weekly study class is to focus on the Book of Kings, held in the Harry and Rose Samson JCC Library. The discussion group and study session is held every Tuesday at 12 p.m. in the JCC reading room. It is also held on Zoom. Kalmar has served as a rabbi at Anshe […]
Greenwood Cemetery opened a dedicated area for “green burials” in 2014, making it the first Jewish cemetery in the state of Wisconsin to do so. Today, it continues to offer the service for those who would like an option where everything is biodegradable. Local rabbis got the idea started. “Rabbi [Jay] Brickman from Congregation Sinai […]
This month, I sat down with Dr. Susan Bornstein-Forst of Bader Hillel High. Known as “Doc” by her students, Bornstein-Forst has been teaching at Bader Hillel High for four years. While she is currently teaching biology, Bornstein-Forst is no stranger to Jewish education. Bornstein-Forst was raised in a traditional Orthodox home in Mount Vernon, New […]
“An Etrog From Across the Sea,” by Kerry Olitzky and Deborah Bodin Cohen, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen Set in 1729 and inspired by Jewish merchant and trader Luis Moises Gomez, this story follows his travel to Corsica. There, he finds spectacular etrogs. In a letter, he writes that he will bring one home to […]
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