Sunday April 28, 2024 | 19 Nisan 5784
The Milwaukee Chevra Kadisha, the Jewish burial society, hosted an appreciation dinner for its members on March 19, 2024, at the Bader Philanthropies headquarters. It is traditional for Chevra Kadisha organizations to gather for such events around the seventh day of the Jewish month of Adar, which is considered the yahrzeit anniversary of the death […]
To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. In his 1790 letter of reply to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, George Washington echoed the words of first generation Jewish-American Moses Seixas who had penned them as part of a congratulations and query to the newly inaugurated first U.S. president with the aim of […]
This is Lori Fisher’s second year teaching sixth and seventh grade at Congregation Sinai, but don’t let that fool you; she is no stranger to teaching or to Sinai! Fisher says she practically grew up there. Her mother, Marsha Fensin, was the cantorial soloist at Sinai for many, many years, and Fisher spent the first […]
“Afikomen,” story by Tziporah Cohen, Illustrated by Yaara Eshet, published by Groundwood Books. In this stunning wordless picture book, “readers” will follow three children who travel back in time from their Passover seder to ancient Egypt. It follows what happened to baby Moses and how he was saved from the Nile River. There is a […]
Jewish artists stood beside their art and chatted with one another and with art fans. It was a Sunday afternoon devoted to art, and some respite from the troubling news facing the Jewish people in recent months. The Jewish Artists’ Exhibition was held Feb. 18, 2024, at The Shul Center in Bayside. The theme was […]
In 1942, in Vilna in what is now Lithuania, a group of Jews worked to hide books, art, and other cultural artifacts from the Nazis. Led by poets Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginskithe group was known as the Paper Brigade of Vilna, and it took and hid the items that had been part of the […]
Jewish Life Television, a Jewish-themed cable network that focuses on the cultural side of Judaism, is now available for Spectrum cable subscribers in the Milwaukee area, as well as other markets around the country. The channel arrived in Wisconsin in August. Those in Milwaukee who subscribe to Spectrum’s “Entertainment Value” package can watch it on […]
The Jewish Broadcasting Service, just in time for the high holidays, is set to land on Spectrum cable systems in Milwaukee and several other Wisconsin markets on Sept. 1. JBS, which was founded in 2008 and shows a wide variety of Jewish and Israeli programming, had already been available for those who subscribe to Comcast […]
The details were exquisite, right down to the miniscule, rolled up papers, each smaller than an eraser head. The rolls, all violet, made up a three-inch model of a Torah cover – with one yellow roll for each of the Torah handles. Students at Torah Academy of Milwaukee created massive art banners, three-dimensional models and […]
Jewish Museum Milwaukee is undertaking the formidable task of digitizing its entire collection, an enterprise that began in fall 2016 and still has many more years to go. The museum, located at 1360 N. Prospect Ave., celebrates Jewish heritage and the history of Wisconsin’s Jewish community. In addition to its physical exhibitions, staff, interns and […]
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