Monday May 13, 2024 | 5 Iyyar 5784
I have taken two solidarity trips to Israel in the last few years. The first, in June of 2021, to stand with Israel after the breakout of Operation Guardian of the Walls, which began after Hamas launched rockets into Central Israel, breaking a ceasefire. The Israel Defense Forces launched the operation, and 11 days later, […]
My grandma Bessie Wolkenstein had three brothers: Max, Charlie, and Jake Katz. Max was married and he and Ida had a house on the north side of Milwaukee. Charlie and his wife Ruth lived on the west side, but I didn’t know where Jake lived. Max owned a heating and sheet metal shop, Charlie worked […]
Jewish artists stood beside their art and chatted with one another and with art fans. It was a Sunday afternoon devoted to art, and some respite from the troubling news facing the Jewish people in recent months. The Jewish Artists’ Exhibition was held Feb. 18, 2024, at The Shul Center in Bayside. The theme was […]
They keep telling their story, over and over, with multiple trips from Israel to points overseas. They endure the pain, the memories, and push through, for the third time in a day, to share what happened. They do it to bring the Jewish people together at a difficult time and in an effort to bring […]
Josh Nankin does not flinch from telling his story: He grew up in Milwaukee, was enmeshed with Jewish life here, went out into the world, and fell into the dark pit of a terrible addiction. Then his marriage “fell apart,” he said. But now, thanks to a strain of Jewish thinking called “Breslov,” he’s feeling […]
“The Chosen,” the story of a pair of Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, began life as a novel by Chaim Potok, first published in 1967. It was adapted into a movie in 1981 and then, in 1999, Aaron Posner worked with Potok to turn it into a stage play. That play […]
You might say Senator Herb Kohl’s breathtaking record of service to Jewish Wisconsin, and beyond, started when he was a boy. In 1948, the Chronicle reported, in the tiniest of tiny articles, that a teenaged Herb Kohl “turned over the money he recently received as Bar Mitzvah gifts … to the campaign for the Milwaukee […]
MADISON – Advocates testified last month in support of a bill to provide state funding for the Holocaust education center. The state Legislature is considering the bill to provide funding to Wisconsin’s Holocaust education center, after 2021 legislation requiring Holocaust and genocide education in schools led to increased demand for educator training and resources. Advocates […]
Sunday, Feb. 4 Bagels, Books & Babies Families with babies two and under are invited to meet for a story, music and play. All are invited to attend. Feb. 4, 10-11 a.m. Congregation Shalom, 7630 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Fox Point. Contact Brian Avner at Brian@Cong-Shalom.org or 414-352-9288, Ext. 122. Create a photo estate Cover […]
Rebecca Guralnick became the new chair of the Women’s Philanthropy campaign of Milwaukee Jewish Federation, in the weeks before the attacks of Oct. 7. Since then, some things have remained the same, like her desire to have honest conversations with people in the community about their priorities and the needs of the Jewish people. Some […]
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