MILWAUKEE – Rabbi Joel Alter stepped to the podium and asked six questions: “Are we celebrating? Are we joyful? Are we grateful? Are we furious? Are we frustrated? Are we grieving?” Murmurs from the audience answered the six questions: “Yes.” Alter agreed. It’s “yes,” he said, “to all of them.” Speakers approached the podium with […]
Rosie Vayner and Samantha Gorelik, co-chairs of the NextGen Council, are focused on engaging young Jewish Milwaukeeans through the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s NextGen program. “We know that when we bring people in, and they feel welcome and start to feel more of a personal connection to Federation, that they’re more likely to stay involved for […]
Ruth Schudson, who co-founded the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in the 1970s and spent decades as a regular player at local theater venues, died peacefully on Dec. 19. She was 98. In an interview conducted by Linda Marcus in May of 2005 for the Jewish Museum Milwaukee Archive’s video oral history project, Schudson said she couldn’t […]
The Rubenstein Family Kosher Oasis Café is open, offering a wide range of Jewish foods as one of the few Kosher restaurants in Milwaukee. The restaurant had closed during the pandemic and struggled with resulting staffing shortages. The Café, located at Ovation Communities, a senior living facility on Prospect Avenue, is open to the public […]
She said her name was Ellie, short for Elaine. We met in a statistics class and seemed to like each other. We didn’t date because I was working nights with two bands on campus every Friday and Saturday, and on holidays. So we agreed to have a study date. Ellie had no problem getting dates […]
Since Matthew was to be a C-section delivery, it was decided that he would stay at the hospital until his bris. Kathy would also remain to begin her recovery. The bris and the luncheon were planned for day eight, as was customary, but on day five, the pediatrician told me Matthew’s blood numbers were not […]
MILWAUKEE – The Jewish Community Pantry, 2900 W. Center St., provides food and services to those in need – even as demand for help has increased and government assistance has withered. Meanwhile, the pantry is working on plans to expand. The Jewish Community Pantry is a program of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish […]
Older adults tend to have invaluable wisdom to share. Mara Kleiman, director of Jewish Life and Learning at Milwuakee Jewish Day School, is making sure her middle schoolers don’t miss out on it through a program called Better Together. “I see such a gap between these generations,” Kleiman said. “But there’s also so much experience […]
Hundreds of schools across Wisconsin will soon hold replica pieces of Holocaust history that will allow students to peer into the lives of those who endured the atrocity. That’s thanks to the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC), where staff are creating trunks filled with replicated documents and artifacts from Holocaust victims […]
A kosher grocery business in Milwaukee has had a number of what owner Mordechai Bates referred to as “spinach moments.” Those are moments when customers of QuicKosher, 4833 W. Burleigh St., are ecstatic about a new product. Bates said his wife coined the term after seeing shoppers’ reaction to QuicKosher stocking frozen kosher spinach, a […]