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Church, with Magen David Adom, gives blood

Posted on: August 27th, 2025 | 3 Elul 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

I’ve grown closer to Judaism in college

I’ve grown closer to Judaism in college

Posted on: August 27th, 2025 | 3 Elul 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

When I was younger, I was told by multiple people passing through my life, including my third grade teacher, that I wasn’t Jewish. I have a Jewish extended family, celebrated holidays, and went to shul once in a blue moon. For me growing up, that was enough. Then came college.  I attend a big public […]

Jewish Experience of Madison has served thousands

Jewish Experience of Madison has served thousands

Posted on: August 20th, 2025 | 26 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Church, with Magen David Adom, gives blood

Posted on: August 20th, 2025 | 26 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Waukesha shul organizes archives

Waukesha shul organizes archives

Posted on: August 20th, 2025 | 26 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Rainbow Day Camp has been there for Stella

Rainbow Day Camp has been there for Stella

Posted on: August 20th, 2025 | 26 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Finally, Paul Singer rests under Star of David – local World War II soldier was under a cross, until nonprofit found Wisconsin family

Finally, Paul Singer rests under Star of David – local World War II soldier was under a cross, until nonprofit found Wisconsin family

Posted on: August 12th, 2025 | 18 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Retired anesthesiologist seeks kidney donor 

Retired anesthesiologist seeks kidney donor 

Posted on: August 12th, 2025 | 18 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Ramona Tenorio named to Elluminate fellowship 

Ramona Tenorio named to Elluminate fellowship 

Posted on: August 12th, 2025 | 18 Av 5785 by Chronicle News Desk

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 […]

Oshkosh professor visited the Chronicle in 2018 to warn of severe economic downturn and rising antisemitism. What does he think now?

Oshkosh professor visited the Chronicle in 2018 to warn of severe economic downturn and rising antisemitism. What does he think now?

Posted on: August 12th, 2025 | 18 Av 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]