Thursday May 09, 2024 | 1 Iyyar 5784
Milwaukee Jewish Federation is offering “microgrants” for organizers of programming related to Israel or antisemitism. The Israel and Overseas Committee of Milwaukee Jewish Federation is offering the microgrants. Organizations can apply for microgrants ranging from $500 to $2,000 per group. If organizations partner with one another, those amounts can double. Programs must be held by […]
Relationships between mothers and their children are complicated. Our mothers are our first teachers, intentionally and unintentionally showing us how to be good people, how to treat and care for others, how to navigate the world, and how to overcome challenges. If you are as lucky as I have been, your mother will also teach […]
Nicolet High School offered kosher-for-Passover meals at prom, on April 27, toward the end of the Passover week. Nicolet is a public school, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the state. “We’re trying to be accommodating of the front end,” Superintendent Greg Kabara said. He credited the staff: “When students ask or say, […]
Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill to allocate $400,000 to Milwaukee’s Holocaust education center, over a two-year period, to help train educators statewide. The bill was approved unanimously by the state legislature after representatives of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center testified at hearings in Madison. The state Senate passed the bill […]
Comedian and climate activist Josh Burstein is to speak at the Tikkun Olam Shabbat at Congregation Shalom, May 17 at 6 p.m. Burstein is an Emmy Award winner and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Burstein will speak at 6 p.m., after the 4:30 showing of “The Last Glimpse,” a documentary about the Maldives, […]
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 […]
Six years ago, a group of neo-Nazis and white supremacists orchestrated a violent attack on an anti-racism protest in Charlottesville, Va. held as a counter to their own rally. They planned for weeks, down to what to wear and even what to bring to lunch and how they would claim self-defense when one of them […]
For Ryan Kelly, 18, trading sports jerseys with an Israeli player whose kibbutz was attacked on Oct. 7 will be a moment he never forgets. The exchange of jerseys was a moment in Ryan’s recent participation in international Jewish games overseas. The Franklin native said that meeting other athletes helped him “understand what some of […]
Sarah Langer said she felt lost after the Oct. 7 attack in Israel by Hamas. The events of that day resulted in about 1,200 deaths and about 250 people being taken hostage, according to news reports. As the war continued, Langer said she felt compelled to act. Originally from Glendale, Langer now lives in Chicago, […]
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