Sunday April 28, 2024 | 19 Nisan 5784
Both of us have been to Israel many, many times. Both of us left for the Jewish Homeland thinking that we knew a lot about the current situation and the repercussions of the Hamas War on the people in our partnership region of Sovev Kineret. Our four days in the region, from Jan. 15-18, made […]
Noa Gerassi, the new Milwaukee community shaliach from Israel, arrived in Milwaukee with her family in mid-August. Less than two months later, the Israeli emissary, at her temporary home in Fox Point, was up late over Shabbat, with her daughter who couldn’t sleep. Gerassi scrolled through her phone and saw the messages on a […]
Local synagogues addressed their congregations and issued public statements in the first days of the unfolding, dark tale of terrorism in Israel that has left over 1,000 civilians dead, 2,800 injured and 150 in captivity. While the Israel Defense Forces were able to regain control of towns infiltrated by Hamas, the country has declared […]
FOX POINT – The room was somber, the speakers’ voices filled with anguish, after inconceivable attacks on civilians, at a festival, in their homes, against people of all ages. A variety of Jewish organizations came together Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, to hold a “Community Solidarity Gathering for Israel.” The evening event was held after […]
Here at the Chronicle, our hearts today are with the people of Israel.
(JTA) — Yoni Asher’s voice was steady but his urgency was unmistakable. “I ask anyone coming to Efrat Katz’s home to tell me they are there, I have not heard from them for four hours,” he said on Israel’s government-run Kan radio. “Them” for Asher was his mother-in-law, Efrat Katz, and his wife and […]
MILWAUKEE — Hate group activity increased 83% from 2021 to 2022, while incidents increased 225% on college campuses and 22% at K-12 schools in Wisconsin, according to a report released last month by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. The 2022 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents — representing the seventh consecutive year […]
Jewish Federations of North America, in partnership with Milwaukee Jewish Federation and other federations, has launched an earthquake relief fund to provide humanitarian aid and to support recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria. Swaths of the two nations were devastated by earthquakes that reached a magnitude of 7.8 on Feb. 6, 2023. The death count […]
Thousands of women who serve as Chabad emissaries gathered last month in Brooklyn for a conference that’s meant to provide a mix of professional development and networking opportunities. But on the conference’s first afternoon on Feb. 9, many of the attendees came together not to meet but to mourn. Standing under an overcast sky outside […]
Milwaukee native Henya Federman is on life support following a tragic accident in the Virgin Islands. Henya and her husband, Rabbi Asher Federman, have been the Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries to the Virgin Islands for the past 17 years. Henya is the daughter of Rabbi Yisroel and Devorah Shmotkin, founders and leaders of Chabad Lubavitch […]
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