Monday May 13, 2024 | 4 Iyyar 5784
Queer joy, queer belonging, queer homes, queer coziness, and queer adventures are a profound and constant thread in my adult life as an out, high femme Milwaukee queer. I lean on our community all the time for smiles, fresh recipes, dog sitting help, and during tougher times too. Likewise, my faith is a major part […]
A child who grows up in a Jewish home will typically get the message that getting a good education is key. My parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, who survived the atrocities of World War II, and the emphasis on education was more than key. It was of utmost importance! If I brought home a […]
Chabad of Glendale & River Hills is hosting Myron Sugerman, the son of Jewish mobster Barney “Sugie” Sugerman, for a men’s night on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Sugerman worked as a manager for Meyer Lansky’s organization operating slot machines in the 1970s. He reintroduced the slot machine business into New York City, where […]
Fei (Brenner) Skinkis, like many of us, was overwhelmed with emotion in the weeks after Oct. 7. When she woke up in the middle of the night, distressed, she realized she needed an outlet. Having set painting aside a year earlier, because life had gotten busy, she picked it back up and started putting images […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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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