Thursday September 19, 2024 | 15 Elul 5784
Dearest College Students, This fall you will be entering campus with many important choices to make. You will be choosing majors, thinking about career opportunities and figuring out which exciting extracurricular activities to participate in. You will also be faced with a choice that students in years before you have not had to make. The […]
Milwaukee Jewish Federation and partners from throughout the community are planning a commemoration of the attacks of Oct. 7, set for the one-year anniversary, which this year falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The commemoration is set for Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. The horrific day of the attacks was a turning point in modern […]
Deb Rodak, representing the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, stands at the museum’s table in the Baird Center at the Republican National Convention, which was from July 15-18. Rodak greeted delegates and others, and she talked about Holocaust education. Photo by Rebecca Spezzano.
On April 2, 2024, Mequon resident, Deborah Lakritz, finally saw her debut middle novel, “Things That Shimmer,” come into the world. The journey from idea to publication took 25 years. Lakritz said the idea came to her early on in her writing journey and was based on elements of her childhood. Raising five children took […]
When people find out I have a podcast called “Making Midlife Magic,” they see it as a departure from my career as a Holocaust educator, and in some ways, it is. In a deeper sense, though, my podcast comes directly out of my work on the Holocaust, specifically two things I’ve learned. First, life is […]
JEM, or Jewish Experience of Madison, had their 13th annual golf tournament at the River Club in Mequon on June 18. Pictured is Neil Wallace, Ian Schulman, Dr. David Sandock and Jim Deshur. Photo by Miriam Yarmush.
Charlene Wexler, an 81-year-old author who recently published yet another book, knows what it is to live in a man’s world. “We listened and we did what we were told, you know, as women,” Wexler said, about growing up in the 1950s – a time when the women’s movement and the role of women were […]
GLENDALE – Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid is making its Sunday school look more like traditional Jewish learning. Traditional Jewish learning — an educational model practiced in yeshivas and kollels — often features a pair of people studying together, called chavruta. The pair will typically discuss ancient texts with one another and explore applications to […]
Rabbi Wes Kalmar and others from Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah in Glendale attended the July 14 Milwaukee Brewers game. About 50 people from the synagogue, at a tailgate, remembered the hostages still held in Gaza. At the tailgate and in the stands, congregants held up signs with images of hostages taken by Hamas and its […]
Beaded Stars of David and embroidered pomegranates will soon travel from Milwaukee to hang on a wall in Israel. Some of those close to Israel’s north or south fronts have been displaced from their homes and are now living at Hotel Nof Kinneret in Tiberias. To show their love, the Local Emergency Volunteerism Support of […]
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