August 26, 2025 | 2 Elul 5785
Rabbi Rocky Anton says he started Jewish Experience of Madison in a moment of “insanity.” “You’ve got to be a little bit meshuggah in order to start a nonprofit organization,” Anton said. Perhaps Anton was “meshuggah,” as he joked, or perhaps it was an observation of his that led him 20 years ago to bring […]
Milwaukee’s Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, led by Dr. Valerie Daniels and Pastor Jeremy Q. Henry, hosted a blood drive in collaboration with American Friends of Magen David Adom and Blood Centers of America. On June 25, local members of Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African American […]
When freelance archivist Sharon Levy opened a damp, musty cardboard box in a storage room at Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha, she discovered mildew. It seemed to be coming from a backpack in the box, long forgotten and blooming with gray spores, with religious school papers that were salvageable. “It’s really nice to be able to […]
On a recent summer morning, Stella Schneider begged her mother not to take her to a speech therapy appointment so she could instead take the bus with her friends to the Albert & Ann Deshur JCC Rainbow Day Camp, where she has spent the last couple of months rediscovering her childhood. “She was like, ‘We […]
For more than 80 years, a cross marked the grave of Paul Singer, a young Jewish airman from Shorewood, killed in World War II. In May, the cross was replaced with a Star of David. “When you see that cross get lifted up and, very respectfully, put on a crate, on a sort of a […]
Arthur Davidson, a retired anesthesiologist who’s lived in Mequon for over 40 years, is seeking a living kidney donor. Davidson, 72, is in the final stage of kidney disease after years of living with high blood pressure. Last December, he was placed on the transplant list at St. Luke’s Medical Center. He’s currently trying to […]
BROOKFIELD — Dr. Ramona Tenorio, co-founder and executive director of Tiyuv, has been named to the newest cohort of The Collective, a leadership program operated by Elluminate that supports Jewish women nonprofit leaders in the U.S. and Israel. Tenorio is one of ten women selected nationally and the only participant from Wisconsin. Elluminate’s Collective is […]
When I joined a Zoom call with Michael Jasinski, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, I was expecting a grave discussion about the future of American Jews and others in the U.S. We were following up on his prediction in 2018 of looming catastrophe in the United States. Jasinski drove down to […]
Participate in an important research study exploring the lived experiences of Jewish individuals and households who identify as nonwhite, mixed-race, or as Jews of Color in the Greater Milwaukee area. The study seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the identities, community ties, and experiences of these households. Study facilitators aim to amplify your stories […]
In the last years of his life, my father and I took long, leisurely walks through his Rush Street neighborhood in Chicago, and we would go to one of his favorite Greek restaurants, which bustled with people and loud cheer. He liked going to these restaurants because everyone knew him and would smile when he […]
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