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Coming events, May 2025 

Coming events, May 2025 

Posted on: April 30th, 2025 | 2 Iyyar 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

Friday, May 2  Renewal Shabbat This uplifting service will be led by Cantor Mimi Rozansky, Rabbi Noah, and musicians from the community. Inspired by the joyful spirit of Jewish Renewal, the evening will feature prayer, music, and moments of reflection. All are welcome to attend this spiritually enriching Shabbat celebration. May 2, 6 p.m. Congregation Shalom, […]

Bielsky will reflect on heroic family story at Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Bielsky will reflect on heroic family story at Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Posted on: April 16th, 2025 | 18 Nisan 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

This year’s Yom HaShoah marks 80 years since the Holocaust’s end. The Holocaust Education Resource Center invites the community to gather in remembrance on Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m. at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in the Daniel M. Soref Community Hall.   Their featured speaker, Jordan Bielsky — an actor, […]

Yamim 2025 runs April 27 through May 4

Yamim 2025 runs April 27 through May 4

Posted on: April 16th, 2025 | 18 Nisan 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

Yamim 2025, three days of commemoration for the Jewish community, falls this year between April 27 and May 4.  They are Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day; Yom Hazikaron, or Israel’s Day of Remembrance; and Yom Haaztmaut, or Israel’s Independence Day. RSVP at Milwaukeejewish.org/Yamim.  The Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day event, is slated for […]

Coming Events, April 2025 

Coming Events, April 2025 

Posted on: March 27th, 2025 | 27 Adar 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

Tuesdays, April 1  Kids Art & Baking  Weekly on Tuesdays at Friendship Circle from April 1st through May 13 excluding April 15 for Passover. April 1, 4-6 p.m. Friendship Circle of Wisconsin, 8649 N. Port Washington Rd., Fox Point.    Thursday, April 3  Women and objects “Bezalel’s Daughter: How Jewish Women Make Objects” Without Jewish American women, […]

Good Deeds Day, created in Israel, is coming to Milwaukee on April 6

Good Deeds Day, created in Israel, is coming to Milwaukee on April 6

Posted on: March 11th, 2025 | 11 Adar 5785 by Rob Golub

Good Deeds Day, an international event that was born in Israel and then spread to more than 100 countries, is coming to Milwaukee.   Good Deeds Day started in Israel with just 7,000 volunteers in 2007. In recent years, the annual Good Deeds Day has attracted around 4 million volunteers annually, often working on community-improvement projects […]

JCC to host ‘Untangled: The Jewish Hair Saga’

JCC to host ‘Untangled: The Jewish Hair Saga’

Posted on: March 10th, 2025 | 10 Adar 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

A former coworker kept telling Reva Fox that her hair looked great when she wore it straight.  They told her: “Your hair looks so good like this. You should wear it like this every day.”  But to Fox, curly hair feels tied to her Jewish identity, and the comments didn’t sit right with her. Today, […]

Merzy Eisenberg to receive Lifetime Impact Award

Merzy Eisenberg to receive Lifetime Impact Award

Posted on: March 3rd, 2025 | 3 Adar 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

Merzy Eisenberg, a  founding Hebrew teacher at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, will headline the dozens of area educators who will be honored at this year’s Salute to Jewish Educators awards ceremony held each year by Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Coalition for Jewish Learning.   Eisenberg will be honored with the Lifetime Impact Award for her 22 […]

Coming Events, March 2025                     

Coming Events, March 2025                     

Posted on: March 3rd, 2025 | 3 Adar 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

Monday, March 3  Trivia Ha-Ir fundraiser  Show off your knowledge of useless facts, local trivia and Jewish knowledge while supporting the work of Tikkun Ha-Ir. Proceeds support Tikkun Ha-Ir’s mission to build a more just community by uniting Jews of all backgrounds in study, action and civic engagement. March 3, 5:30-7 p.m. Arts @ Large, […]

We are the Kosher Cruisers of Wisconsin  

We are the Kosher Cruisers of Wisconsin  

Posted on: February 18th, 2025 | 20 Shevat 5785 by Special to the Chronicle

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 […]

Wisconsin has a Jewish motorcycle club

Wisconsin has a Jewish motorcycle club

Posted on: February 18th, 2025 | 20 Shevat 5785 by Rob Golub

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 […]