March 18, 2025 | 18 Adar 5785
Here’s a great way to stand up to the recent increase in antisemitism. Let’s all remember what we love about being Jewish! The Chronicle is sponsoring a 2025 Great Writing Essay Contest, for students, on this topic: “What I love about being Jewish.” The writers of winning essays will receive a $25 gift certificate to […]
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, your award-winning newspaper, now has its own rack at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center! Who knows where else in the community a rack could someday pop up? Keep an eye out! We are all abuzz about this, here at your Chronicle.
“Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti,” by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Martina Peluso, published by Kar-Ben Publishing During World War II, Hungary implemented a law barring Jewish athletes from participating in sports. Gymnast Ágnes Keleti could no longer practice with her teammates. Together with another gymnast, she […]
MADISON – Temple Beth El in Madison installed Rabbi Jonathan (Jon) Prosnit as senior rabbi on Friday, December 13, during Shabbat services. Special guests — including Rabbi Prosnit’s former clergy colleagues as well as his father, Rabbi James Prosnit, and brother, Rabbi Ethan Prosnit — participated in the installation ceremony, along with the synagogue’s cantor, […]
Our featured educator this month, Rebecca Fine, teaches first through third grade at Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid on Sundays. Her students engage with Torah, Jewish traditions, and culture through hevruta, art and music. This is Fine’s first year teaching young children, although she holds a degree in early childhood education. Growing up in Round […]
We come from around the country and from around the world. We’re intimidating-looking men and women dressed in leathers, chaps, doo-rags, and of course, our cuts. We come on two and three wheels with the wind in our face. Who are we? We are the JMA – the Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance. We are 50+ clubs […]
MILWAUKEE – Let’s not blame Chicago. Yes, yes, it’s true. Wisconsin finally has a Jewish motorcycle club, after representatives of the Chicago Jewish motorcycle club literally rode down here to ask the Chronicle, what gives? Your city is the home of Harley-Davidson, and you don’t even have a Jewish motorcycle club? Never mind that Chicago […]
Torah Academy of Milwaukee holds an annual performance, and the show this year is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Prince and the Pauper,” now set in Victorian England during the late 1830s. This photo is of rehearsal. The story follows two young girls — Princess Victoria, heir to the throne, and Penny Canty, […]
During the Holocaust, most European governments failed to protect their Jewish populations from the Nazis. One exception was Denmark, where about 95 percent of the Jewish community survived the war. More than 7,000 Danish Jews were evacuated to Sweden after the Rosh Hashanah holiday in 1943, and hundreds more were saved when they were removed […]
MILWAUKEE – The case against Zechariah and Peter Mehler, accused of removing a swastika mural from private property, is headed for trial. At a Jan. 14 preliminary hearing, the case was referred to trial. The men are charged with criminal damage to property, as a felony. A trial date has not yet been set, as […]
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