August 02, 2025 | 8 Av 5785
MILWAUKEE – Food donations for the Community Passover Food Drive (Ma’ot Chittim) will be collected March 12 – 28 at several sites throughout the community, including the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and local synagogues. Products needed, which must have kosher certification for Passover: matzo, canned gefilte fish, chicken […]
It may sound like something out of a dystopian speculative fiction novel, but it happened. “Degenerate Art” was the name of a Nazi-sponsored art show, held in Munich in 1937, with hundreds of works on display to “educate” the public on the “art of decay.” Text labels with the pieces derided the art. In the […]
Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, a woman in the unusual role of leading an observant community in Israel, is to visit Milwaukee early this month. Mirvis, who makes use of the title “rabbanit,” is the sole spiritual leader for Shirat HaTamar in Efrat, Israel. When she was appointed in 2001, the Times of Israel reported that […]
The State of Israel will turn 75 in 2023, and Jewish organizations in the Milwaukee area are planning to start the year of celebration with a mini-film festival, throughout the month of January. The Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC and Milwaukee Jewish Federation will present the “Faces & Voices of Israel” film event. It […]
The small moments stay with Robert Jan van Pelt. An expert on the history of Auschwitz, van Pelt recalls a blueprint he reviewed for barracks at the concentration camp in Poland. It showed the capacity for prisoners in the bunks based on an assumption that each inmate would have two feet by six feet of […]
Above: Raisa Koltun, Tanya Arbit, Susan Lubar, Susan Strait, Joan Lubar, Andrea Schneider, Debra Katz, Sara Hermanoff, Idy Goodman, Barbara Glazer and Melissa Taylor from Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy joined more than 1,200 women philanthropists from 80 communities around the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Israel at Jewish Federations of North America’s three-day International […]
Thursday, Dec. 1 Mel Brooks The Steve Solochek Memorial Lecture Series featuring Patrick McGilligan, author of “Funny Man: Mel Brooks.” An audience-driven Q&A follows. 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1. Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Ave. Museum members $5. Nonmembers $10. Candle Making Prepare for the season of light with Tapestry Arts & Ideas, […]
Thursday, Sept. 1 Heroes of Humanity Hear from Rabbi Yoseph Zaltzman and Ellie Schuster as they share what it takes to live a life of faith and kindness under communism in Romania. Presented by Mequon Torah Center. Sept. 1 at 7 p.m., Peltz Center for Jewish Life, 2233 W. Mequon Road. Learn more and […]
Monday, July 4 March with JCC Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center to march in parade, Monday, July 4, 11:10 a.m. Join the JCC for the Whitefish Bay Fourth of July Parade. Meeting location to be determined. JCC to provide the holiday swag! Wear a JCC T-shirt if you have one. Fill out an […]
Wednesday, June 1 JCC Annual Meeting Join the Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC for its 2021-22 Annual Meeting that will install the 2022-23 board of directors, recognize awardees and share the state of the JCC and vision for the future. June 1 at 7 p.m. Daniel M. Soref Community Hall at the Harry […]
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