September 05, 2025 | 12 Elul 5785
When Rabbi Levi Stein started operating Friendship Circle of Wisconsin in 2017, as a bakery that trained people with special needs, he could not have imagined where he was headed. In a few years, Stein would observe the weight of the pandemic on teen mental health, then assign a new mission to Friendship Circle. Even […]
Diana Vang-Brostoff is on two simultaneous missions, one for the world and one for herself. You may know her as the wife of Alderman Jonathan Brostoff, obm, who tragically died by suicide on Nov. 4, 2024, after much of his beloved, left-leaning Milwaukee social network turned on him, post-Oct. 7. While it’s not possible to […]
Yopps resigned from JFS John Yopps resigned in July from his position as president and CEO of Jewish Family Services. The Board of Directors appointed Dan Fleischman as interim president and CEO. He will continue serving as vice president of housing at Jewish Family Services and president of JFS Housing, according to the two closely […]
In August 2024, we arrived in this wonderful place — the Milwaukee Jewish community. Although we came after a long and intense process of applying, training, and preparing to be ShinShinim* in an American Jewish community — living independently with unfamiliar host families, learning how to represent Israel in countless ways — we still didn’t […]
Flash floods swept through Milwaukee and its surrounding areas Aug. 9-10, leaving significant damage – including to parts of the local Jewish community. While many Jewish organizations were largely spared from water damage, others were not so fortunate. “Several Chabad rabbis’ homes, which are also used for connecting with community, were damaged with flooding of […]
The Jewish Caucus of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin called for the release of the hostages, a mutually agreed upon ceasefire, and an increase of aid into Gaza, according to a statement issued by the organization. In an Aug. 4 vote, 8-3, the Caucus decided to issue the statement making several points related to “the […]
Milwaukee’s Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, led by Dr. Valerie Daniels and Pastor Jeremy Q. Henry, hosted a blood drive in collaboration with American Friends of Magen David Adom and Blood Centers of America. On June 25, local members of Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African American […]
Rabbi Rocky Anton says he started Jewish Experience of Madison in a moment of “insanity.” “You’ve got to be a little bit meshuggah in order to start a nonprofit organization,” Anton said. Perhaps Anton was “meshuggah,” as he joked, or perhaps it was an observation of his that led him 20 years ago to bring […]
When freelance archivist Sharon Levy opened a damp, musty cardboard box in a storage room at Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha, she discovered mildew. It seemed to be coming from a backpack in the box, long forgotten and blooming with gray spores, with religious school papers that were salvageable. “It’s really nice to be able to […]
On a recent summer morning, Stella Schneider begged her mother not to take her to a speech therapy appointment so she could instead take the bus with her friends to the Albert & Ann Deshur JCC Rainbow Day Camp, where she has spent the last couple of months rediscovering her childhood. “She was like, ‘We […]
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