July 20, 2025 | 23 Tammuz 5785
Ted Neitzke IV, who is not Jewish, had never heard directly from a Holocaust survivor. An educator, Neitzke had read extensively about the genocide. He researched. He wrote. But it was all, as he said, “through one-dimensional, breathless texts.” Then he met southeastern Wisconsin’s Eva Zaret, a survivor. Zaret, of Budapest, Hungary, shared her experience […]
Back in mid-April, the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center teamed up with Wisconsin teacher Maria Prust to host a Holocaust education event, featuring a survivor and a child of one, at Wausau’s Grand Theater. The event drew more than 800 students from several districts in the central part of the state. Prust […]
The program Student to Student dates back to 1992, when it was created by the Jewish Community Relations Council in St. Louis. It aims to fight antisemitism by having students talk to other students, including some who might have little previous familiarity with Jewish people, to foster understanding. Twelve students recently entered the Milwaukee Jewish […]
While held in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Rabbi Franz (Frank) Rosenthal set up a small medical clinic. One day, as he was caring for a man suffering from pneumonia, he was summoned over the loudspeaker. He was going to either die or be set free, so he gave the stranger his clothes off his back […]
On Dec. 7, 1941, as the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a young Jewish man in what is now Ukraine had a harrowing choice to make. Either be captured by the Nazis — who had already taken his parents and two brothers — or run and hide in a forest. Charles Thau chose the latter, fleeing […]
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin’s reported antisemitic incidents still reflect a cumulative increase of 459% since 2015, according to the 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released in May by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Although overall reporting decreased by 20% last year, the report indicates that anti-Israel/anti-Zionist incidents spiked 192% between 2023 […]
Jordan Bielsky, grandson of a Jewish partisan group founder, spoke on his family’s connection with the Holocaust at the Yom HaShoah community event on April 27. The event was held at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, in partnership with the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a program of Milwaukee […]
Yom HaZikaron included participation from the Milwaukee Jewish Day School choir. By Janet McMillan Photography. Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Day of Remembrance, was marked April 29, 2025, with Milwaukee Jewish Federation at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center. /// Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Day of Remembrance, was marked April 29, 2025, with Milwaukee Jewish […]
Queer folx must be soul-keepers and dream-weavers, illusion-makers and earth-benders. We must resist breakage and remember the lessons of our ancestors – Marcia Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Harvey Milk (z”l), Cherríe Moraga, Leslie Feinberg(z’l), Crow Two-Spirit member Osh-Tisch, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and so many other protectors. We must uphold their names as we persist in their […]
“I’ll walk with you and hold your hand.” I will always remember that precious display of alliance I received as a closeted queer child. I was in high school and wanted to attend my first Pride event. The words over the phone felt like a beacon, guiding me as I investigated my fresh understanding. I […]
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