Saturday May 11, 2024 | 3 Iyyar 5784
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 […]
“The Prince of Steel Pier,” by Stacy Nockowitz, published by Kat-Ben Publishing Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Middle Grade Literature and a Sydney Taylor Notable Book, “The Prince of Steel Pier” will transport readers to 1972 and Atlantic City. Along with his immediate family, post-bar mitzvah boy, Joey, spends the summer helping […]
Claire Boren was born in 1938 in Mizocz, a small town in what was then Poland but is now part of Ukraine. Her family, just a step ahead of the Nazis, fled into hiding in 1942, first with a Christian family, then on a farm, and eventually in a forest. After the Russians liberated the […]
The annual community event to commemorate the Holocaust is scheduled for erev Yom HaShoah, Monday, April 17, 2023, 6 p.m., at a time of rising antisemitism. You may RSVP at MilwaukeeJewish.org/Yamim. “As antisemitism continues to increase in Wisconsin, across the U.S. and around the world, coming together to commemorate Yom HaShoah, to remember where hate […]
Monday, April 17 Yom HaShoah Stand with the Milwaukee community in memorial to the six million and in remembrance of all forms of resistance. Holocaust survivor Claire Boren will join this year’s commemoration. Claire will share how her experiences and memories from the Holocaust continue to shape her artwork. April 17, 6-7:30 p.m. Harry & […]
Torah Academy of Milwaukee’s Portals to the Past was a school-wide project that highlights major events in Jewish history. This student-driven project had groups produce a banner, an audio-visual presentation and a three-dimensional model. Five banners were presented in a Feb. 6, school assembly, shown in one photo. In the other photo, a banner highlights […]
“An Invitation to Passover,” by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen, illustrated by Mariia Kolker, published by Kalaniot Books When grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins cannot attend Hannah’s family seder, her parents are thrilled when Hannah suggests inviting friends. This is a beautiful picture book, welcoming a diverse group of guests to celebrate […]
They’re the best of friends, but in the video, they holler at one another about the Israeli-Palestinian shared walk of pain and turmoil, that unyielding problem. Their video, “Let’s Talk Straight,” has garnered more than 1 million views, a viral sensation. One man is actually Palestinian, the other an actual Israeli Jew, and both play […]
When she was a child, Julia Brunson would run around the European Village at the Milwaukee Public Museum and peek through the windows of the replica homes representing different nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in amazement of what life was like in a distant place generations ago. “I would go there and I would see the […]
Monday, March 6 Purim rodeo Young Jewish Professionals Purim Rodeo in honor of Purim. Join others from the Jewish community in their 20s and 30s for western BBQ style grub, open bar, Megillah reading, a new take on hamantaschen, classic Jewish country tunes and more! Register online at YJPMilwaukee.com/Purim. March 6, 7:30 p.m. Tonic Tavern, […]
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