Tuesday November 28, 2023 | 15 Kislev 5784
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle is offering a remote journalism internship for college students. The Chronicle has one opening for summer 2024 and another for spring 2024 during the school year. Full-time jobs and other internships often require or prefer previous professional experience. The Chronicle internship is designed to provide you with a good rung on that […]
The War Memorial Center, a Milwaukee landmark overlooking Lake Michigan, also functions as a year-round rental space for spacious and scenic downtown weddings. Collin Falvey, the wedding and event coordinator for the War Memorial Center, said that even though locals are familiar with the building itself, many people are unaware that the center accommodates weddings, […]
The Milwaukee Public Museum offers weddings in a range of unique spaces and exhibits: from ceremonies under the stars of their planetarium to receptions in front of Wendy the dinosaur or next to its butterfly vivarium. “I would definitely say we’re very immersive,” said Kristine Thomsen, director of special events and group sales at the […]
Growing up with educators as parents and having a passion for film, Jacob Rosenberg did not see teaching in his future. While he was always very passionate about education, when he became a teenager, he was determined not to follow in his parents’ footsteps. As it turns out, he could not fight genetics and the […]
The round tables were draped with linen. A cantor sang Hebrew melodies at the dais. It was all just a bit of something, a gesture. No amount of honor could possibly be enough. Interviewing at her round dinner table, Faina Balterova remembered when she was a girl in Ukraine, shocked to have just learned that […]
Milwaukee Jewish Day School students held a “Shabbat Sing,” in support of Israel after the attacks of Oct. 7.
“Our young artists came up with wonderfully decorated notes to articulate their heartfelt support to our friends and families in Israel, said Jacqueline Cabessa Redlich, art teacher at Bader Hillel Academy. “Some students used their short time period in art class to produce truly meaningful and artistic poems – an expression of love and kindness […]
The most terrible images and threats are all over social media, and our kids are seeing at least some of it. For advice, we turned to Dr. Jeremy Chapman, a Congregation Shalom congregant, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist who treats young people exposed to horrific stimuli. Chapman noted that children will see police cars […]
Four teenagers will share their experiences with mental health at an upcoming youth advocacy event on Nov. 12 hosted by the Wisconsin Friendship Circle. The Ted Talk-style function, One Thing I Wish You Knew, is part of the organization’s UMatter initiative, which aims to help teens and adults destigmatize mental illness and foster inclusivity. The […]
Lexie Niskanen, a college student, stood at the front of the gathering and urged people to check on one another. “There’s a lot of things we can do as students and as a community in these negative times. First, we can check in on each other and make sure we are not alone,” she said. […]
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