Wednesday August 10, 2022 | 13 Av 5782
Imagine you’re a 17-year-old boy from abroad whose parents have both belief in the value of education and the means to achieve it — sufficient means to send you to a private boarding school in the United States for high school as the first step to an American university education. As your senior year […]
Justin Hirsch, a Homestead High School senior, says he likes reviewing grant applications and studying projects that need funding. Justin gets this experience and much more through his membership on the Teen Philanthropy Board, a program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. For more than five years, the Board has brought Jewish teens together to […]
MILWAUKEE – While the overturning of Roe vs. Wade took many by surprise, Rabbi Bonnie Margulis saw it coming. Margulis, with decades of experience as a leader in the pro-choice movement, was preparing for a post-Roe world even before a draft of the Supreme Court decision was leaked. Now, the possibility of a post-Roe […]
Ten years after his Milwaukee Jewish Day School trip to Israel, Zach Sinykin was there again, planning a presidential visit. Milwaukee-area native Sinykin, a 23-year-old advance associate for the Biden administration, helped organize the President’s recent trip to Israel from July 13 to 15, 2022. “In Israel, it’s a very big deal for the […]
Tables Across Borders, a local volunteer-led initiative, is featuring Ukrainian cuisine Aug. 8 at the Lazy Susan restaurant in Milwaukee. The event’s family of chefs are the Stanishevkas, from the local Jewish community. The co-founder of Tables Across Borders, Kai Gardner-Mishlove, runs that initiative to highlight the cuisine of local refugee chefs. The organization […]
MILWAUKEE – It seems at least plausible that your next U.S. senator could be the current lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes, or businessperson Alex Lasry, or, for another six years, Sen. Ron Johnson. Johnson, a Republican, is expected to succeed in the Aug. 9, 2022, Republican primary in his quest for a third term. The […]
BBYO-Wisconsin member Micah Packman prompted AJ Dillon, Green Bay Packers running back, to share his experience living as a Jew of color. The interview took place in February 2022, at the BBYO International Convention in Baltimore. Packman began the interview by asking Dillon about his engagement in Jewish life throughout his childhood. “Growing up, […]
About two years ago, right around the time AJ Dillon was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, Fox Point teenager Micah Packman caught the green and gold bug, quickly becoming a big fan of the team and the young running back. “Once he got drafted, I was watching all of the games and following […]
Rabbi Moishe Steigmann began “The Spark Wisconsin” in 2016 – today called “Own Your Judaism” – from his own home, to give Jews from all backgrounds a voice. While he began the Wisconsin-based nonprofit for those who were disconnected from Judaism, it has come to include even those who need another connecting point to […]
Eliana Tabak, a junior at Nicolet High School, has visited the elderly since the sixth grade through her synagogue and school. So it’s no surprise she would co-lead a teen advisory board that brings her peers together with residents at Ovation Jewish Home and Ovation Chai Point senior living. “I think they are so […]
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