Sunday May 28, 2023 | 8 Sivan 5783
Tuesday, May 2 Gender Complexity in Jewish Tradition Rabbi Abby Phelps will guide a discussion of gender in Jewish scriptural, rabbinic and contemporary texts. Phelps served four years as rabbi educator for Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, before relocating to Milwaukee. She specializes in teaching about the intersection of Jewish thought and contemporary ethical […]
WHITEFISH BAY – CAFĀ B DATA at the Jewish Community Center opened in recent months under new management, after remaining mostly closed through much of the pandemic. Cold deli items, salads and hot soups are mong the items being served. Also, hot food is being served, with Mediterranean, healthy and Ashkenazi options. The restaurant is […]
“The Prince of Steel Pier,” by Stacy Nockowitz, published by Kat-Ben Publishing Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Middle Grade Literature and a Sydney Taylor Notable Book, “The Prince of Steel Pier” will transport readers to 1972 and Atlantic City. Along with his immediate family, post-bar mitzvah boy, Joey, spends the summer helping […]
Ten students in Madison have been meeting with Holocaust survivors nationwide, by Zoom, as part of Chabad’s Stories That Live program. Chabad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers the program in Madison. Stories That Live is a program that connects students with Holocaust survivors. Started at a Chabad that serves students in Pennsylvania, the programming […]
Third grade was a hard time for Milwaukee Jewish Day School teacher Linsey Kimmel. Her teacher made her feel inadequate. The teacher was not good at differentiating and made Linsey feel incapable. In fifth grade, she had a teacher who empowered her by calling her a “shining star.” She decided to become a teacher so […]
Hundreds of teachers from around the state gathered for the annual conference of the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, the organization’s first since a law mandating Holocaust education went into effect, marking a critical juncture for an ongoing effort to get educators acclimated with the challenging topic and its relevance. During the three-day conference […]
A lot has changed in Israel over the last 75 years, and that even includes food. “When Israeli started, it was very basic. First of all, Israel was a very poor state, and secondly, Israel was socialist so dealing with food was almost impolite,” said Gil Hovav, an Israeli celebrity chef who is to visit […]
Joel Chasnoff formed a connection to Israel at a young age, even though he grew up over 6,000 miles away in Chicago attending Solomon Schechter Day School and Camp Ramah in Wisconsin during the summer. The author and comedian has dedicated his work to portraying Israel outside of news headlines and educating Jewish communities about […]
Milwaukee is to honor Israel’s victims of terror and fallen soldiers and veterans of the Israel Defense Forces and other Israeli security services, as well the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Professor Yoram Eshet-Alkalai, who survived the Yom Kippur War, is to help mark the moment. Eshet-Alkalai was a young paratrooper and father, […]
No doubt, you would be hard-pressed to come up with a more important life lesson than fixing a mistake, not just moving on and leaving it. Teens were learning that hard lesson outside Milwaukee Jewish Day School on a cold afternoon, March 14, 2023. They were removing glue from wood, to re-set the wood properly. […]
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