Sunday April 28, 2024 | 20 Nisan 5784
“Judaism wants us to have the joy of becoming our best selves, and the Torah is the handbook to help us get there.” Yonina Schlussel’s fifth through seventh grade students say those words every morning as class begins. She teaches her students that learning Torah is a privilege, and through study, they can gain a […]
The CEEBJ Band will perform at its first-ever “Shabbatpalooza” worship service on Friday, January 12, 7 p.m., at Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun, 2020 W. Brown Deer Road, River Hills. The service will be in the style of the shul’s former Torahpalooza services that it held from 2004 through 2013, said Cantor David Barash. The community […]
Rebecca Guralnick became the new chair of the Women’s Philanthropy campaign of Milwaukee Jewish Federation, in the weeks before the attacks of Oct. 7. Since then, some things have remained the same, like her desire to have honest conversations with people in the community about their priorities and the needs of the Jewish people. Some […]
Israel the “Startup Nation,” has long cultivated values of entrepreneurship and resilience as a nation. Home to over 2,000 startups founded in the last decade alone and with the highest R&D expenditure as share of GDP worldwide in 2022, the country attracts hundreds of global corporations. With the horrific attacks on Oct. 7 and the […]
The Dec. 3 Torah scroll dedication at Chabad of Glendale, sponsored by Lubavitch of Wisconsin with participation from the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, was a profoundly emotional experience. I flew in from Florida with family. Hundreds of Wisconsin Jews, spanning religious, secular, atheists and agnostics, were present at Chabad, symbolizing how the Torah transcends denominational differences. […]
In 1942, in Vilna in what is now Lithuania, a group of Jews worked to hide books, art, and other cultural artifacts from the Nazis. Led by poets Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginskithe group was known as the Paper Brigade of Vilna, and it took and hid the items that had been part of the […]
A local organization focused on Torah studies is on a mission to expand its reach. Rabbi Michel Twerski, of Congregation Beth Jehudah, founded the Milwaukee Kollel in 1989. Based in the city’s Sherman Park neighborhood, the organization provides a place where young rabbinical students can continue their studies of the Torah after marriage. Under executive […]
The atrocities waged against Israel on Oct. 7, the bloodiest day for the Jewish people in decades, will be etched in our collective memory. But even as we still process the horror and its aftermath, and even with hostages still held in Gaza, this period can also be viewed as a galvanizing moment for the […]
As a child, Barbara Feigin fled Nazi Germany in 1940 to Chehalis, Washington. A few years ago, her late Jewish father’s journal was discovered, detailing the family’s harrowing escape from Berlin. “I knew that we had escaped from Germany, but I knew none of the details about it, and my parents never spoke about it,” […]
A chanukiah was on display at the Clement J Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center for Chanukah last month. The Zablocki center, 5000 W. National Ave., is a teaching hospital that provided care for 56,000 veterans in 2021. Queen worked with local Veterans Administration officials to add the menorah, which was placed in the Matousek Auditorium […]
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