Saturday April 20, 2024 | 11 Nisan 5784
Early one winter morning, a small Jewish boy named Daniel is startled out of bed to the sound of someone walking in fresh snow. He peers out of his room’s window to see his father carrying a mysterious box away from his home. What happens next in “Out and About: A Tale of Giving” the […]
Disposal and fire trucks lined the JCC parking lot, while around the corner on the JCC lawn, information booths, food trucks, a bounce house and a mini truck race course lined the lawn. * * * Touch-a-Truck Festival The kids were climbing in truck cabs, pounding away at horns and twisting steering wheels with vigor, […]
“The recession has always been six months from now, so is it coming?” retorted Geoff Colvin at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s June 26 Economic Forum. Colvin, the keynote speaker, delivered a talk on this and more for area business leaders. The CBS Radio commentator primarily discussed challenges to business in the modern world including artificial […]
WHITEFISH BAY – One of the motorcycles zoomed into the JCC parking lot bearing a pair of large, flowing Israeli flags, fluttering off the ends of poles at the back of the chopper. Wendy and David Hefter rode the bike all the way from Baltimore. “It’s a privilege and an honor,” David said. “It’s a […]
Tuesday, July 4 March with the JCC Join the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center for the Whitefish Bay Fourth of July Parade. JCC to provide the holiday swag. Wear a JCC T-shirt if you have one. July 4, 11:10 a.m. Meeting location: TBD. Register online. JCCMilwaukee.org. Questions? Contact Rachel Pressman at RPressman@JccMilwaukee.org. […]
The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison is hosting its 23rd Annual Greenfield Summer Institute, “Jews and Leisure,” from July 17-20, 2023. The summer institute features different topics relating to Jewish life and culture each year. This year’s programming will feature different scholars who will discuss the ways in which Jews […]
It is not every day that hundreds of Northwestern Mutual employees gather for an event that moves many of them to tears while pulling them closer to their colleagues and their community. But that is exactly what happened months ago when Holocaust survivor Eva Zaret told her moving story about her childhood in the Budapest […]
Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Day of Remembrance, was held April 24, 2023, at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay.
The Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale has been performing since 1994, originally formed for the occasion of the Cantors Assembly convening in Milwaukee that year, as well as 150th anniversary of Milwaukee Jewry. The group of about 25 singers is now gearing up for its annual spring concert, with a group of cantors from the area […]
Recent changes have made the future of the economy uncertain. But Geoff Colvin, Fortune magazine’s senior editor-at-large, will be in Milwaukee on Monday, June 26 to discuss this new economic order and what risks and opportunities it presents during his keynote speech at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s 2023 Economic Forum. Born and raised in the […]
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