September 06, 2025 | 13 Elul 5785
Love watching Shark Tank? Wisconsinites can also view a local, more positive take on the hit television show. Every week, viewers across Wisconsin can tune in for a new episode of “Project Pitch It,” a show where Wisconsin entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to a panel of leading business moguls and win awards to […]
The Milwaukee-area Walk for Israel is back and set to happen in-person again, for the first time since the pandemic abruptly shuttered Wisconsin in March 2020. The event marks Yom HaAtzmaut, the Israeli Independence Day, and it has historically been the largest annual pro-Israel event in the state. But the community last walked in-person […]
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun will be hosting a Singing for Ukraine concert on June 2 at 7 p.m. Community members can attend in-person or online through a live-stream on CEEBJ’s Youtube or Facebook. The evening will feature three acts, each performing a 20 to 30 minute set of music. Performing will be Robin Pluer […]
John Nickoll, 87, remembers how fond he was of his grandfather Benjamin. Now, the grandson is building on the grandfather’s local Jewish work. The Benjamin E. Nickoll Young Leadership Award, an award for young men who lead in the local Jewish community, has been granted by Milwaukee Jewish Federation since 1962. Now, sixty years […]
Sunday, May 1 Brewers Game Cantor Barash from Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun will be stepping up to the plate and singing the National Anthem as well as during the seventh inning stretch at the Milwaukee Brewers game vs. the Chicago Cubs. Tune in to watch! Sunday, May 1 at 1:10 p.m. Monday, May 2 […]
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Francine Hirsch studies Russia and the Soviet Union, yet even she didn’t know the war in Ukraine would be so arduous. “It has been a completely brutal war of aggression with all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity. I don’t think anyone expected that,” Hirsch said. In the […]
When the Brewers beat the Cubs on May 1, as they most surely will, it will be with the singing support of Cantor David Barash. Cantor David Barash from Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun will be singing the National Anthem at the Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs baseball game on Sunday, May 1 at 1:10 p.m. […]
Al Rosen loved people. When he passed away, his family received letters and condolences from all over the world, a testament to the impact of his life. Al was not rich or famous or superhuman. He was a man from Milwaukee, husband, father, door-to-door salesman, and Jewish man of faith whose mother had cultivated […]
Daniel Singer, a Wisconsin native, has been a cantor at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, a historic place of worship, for 16 years. His journey has taken him from growing up without Jewish community to serving a synagogue in Manhattan. “All of my formative years were in Superior, Wisconsin. I was […]
A joyous north African tradition is celebrated by many in Israel, on the day after Passover, and this year, Milwaukeeans can get a taste of the Jewish-Muslim celebration known as Mimouna. The origins of Mimouna, a tradition dating back to the mid-18th century, are unknown. Some say that the Jews of North African descent, […]
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