October 30, 2025 | 8 Heshvan 5786
Oh, 2022, why do you have to be so difficult? Milwaukee resident Sarah Hendrix has had to jump through hoops to plan her perfect Jewish wedding for 2022. Hendrix and Jeremy Walker will marry in September at The Atrium in Shorewood. Something about 2022, after years of pandemic living, has changed wedding planning, Hendrix […]
Jessica Sectzer-Rubin’s grandfather worked in the family bakery in Poland before he was deported to Auschwitz and survived as a forced laborer. When Nazis broke into their bakery, they beat him and his father until they bled, then shoved her great-grandfather’s face into a bag of flour. Sectzer-Rubin, 43, relays these traumatic events in […]
Holocaust educators who travel Wisconsin to train the state’s teachers have noticed something – their lessons are needed. “There’s a lot that’s being taught that isn’t necessarily right, and we want to make sure they get it right,” said Mark Miller, board chair of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a […]
MILWAUKEE – There are major differences between the Jewish and Asian experience in America, but there’s common ground, too. “There is a need for us to address what it means to be an ‘other,’” said Ron Kuramato, president of the Japanese American Citizens League – Wisconsin Chapter, during a May 22, 2022, panel discussion. […]
The thinking among pro-choice Jewish activists in Washington, D.C., gathering after the news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, was that “abortion” is not a dirty word. Sue Strait, co-president of the Milwaukee section of the National Council of Jewish Women, planned to bring that lesson and others home […]
A couple of years ago, Rabbi Levi Stein, who runs Friendship Circle, a Milwaukee organization that works with children and adults with disabilities, had a perplexing situation on his hands. One of the organization’s new employees, a disabled man in his 40s, did not show up the first few times he was scheduled to […]
The Marquette University Student Government Senate passed a resolution supporting the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israel on April 25, 2022, in a unanimous vote of those present. “Given the current climate of increased antisemitism and isolation that many Jewish students experience on various college campuses and given the current antisemitic attacks that […]
Evonne Marzouk spent twenty years writing this novel, and her passion radiates from every page. She shares a profound spiritual journey that is deeply rooted in Jewish mysticism. There is nothing like this in the book world as readers learn about the special role a Jewish teen, Rachel, embarks on to fulfill her gifts […]
Wednesday, June 1 JCC Annual Meeting Join the Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC for its 2021-22 Annual Meeting that will install the 2022-23 board of directors, recognize awardees and share the state of the JCC and vision for the future. June 1 at 7 p.m. Daniel M. Soref Community Hall at the Harry […]
With wedding season just around the corner, this is a reminder to take a moment and just breathe. Planning a wedding can be an overwhelming experience filled with lots of emotions. All the preparations lead to what is supposed to be one of the best days of your life; however, sometimes stress and expectations […]
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