August 06, 2025 | 11 Av 5785
Hannah’s Kitchen has found a new home on the Karl Community Campus, offering the Milwaukee community daily kosher meals with an updated menu and weekly themes. Hannah Sattler, the owner and lead chef of Hannah’s Kitchen, started cooking as a volunteer at Congregation Beth Israel more than 12 years ago. She started Hannah’s Kitchen […]
The relocation and detention of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese immigrants, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, is now often acknowledged as a grave miscarriage of justice. Jewish Museum Milwaukee shines a light on racial prejudice, wartime hysteria and the failure of political leadership in a new exhibit on the incarceration of Japanese […]
Friendship Circle of Wisconsin and the Coalition for Jewish Learning of Milwaukee Jewish Federation are offering an Inclusion Teen Training Program. The program educates and supports eighth to twelfth grade students to work with children and peers with disabilities. The students learn how to assist in settings like synagogue schools, Friendship Circle, camp and […]
Jewish Social Services has resettled about 75 Afghan refugees in Madison since the government rapidly fell there in August. “These are people who are desperate to get out of Afghanistan,” said Executive Director Dawn Berney, who leads the Madison Jewish agency. Most refugees were former government officials, journalists or families who could prove they […]
Diane McGeen, who is part of the Chabad Waukesha faith community, has started a GoFundMe to help her mother and others who had to race out of a condominium building that was deemed unsafe and could fall down. On Dec. 2, 48 families were given 15 minutes’ notice to evacuate the six-story building, according […]
Milwaukee Teen Philanthropy Board member Talia Bernstein has been chosen to represent the board nationally as a Youth Ambassador on the Jewish Teen Funders Network Youth Ambassador Council. The Council is a group of youth philanthropists from across North America with the goal of connecting the Jewish Teen Funders Network directly with youth philanthropists […]
The Milwaukee Jewish Teen Philanthropy Board is seeking proposals for funding, which will be disbursed in May 2022. The Milwaukee Jewish Federation program is to award a total of 4-8 grants of up to $4,500 each. The Board is seeking to fund the following areas: poverty/homelessness; antisemitism; domestic violence/mental health; environmental sustainability; and disability […]
Jewish Insider, a political site, published a Jan. 13, 4000-word article on Rep. Mark Pocan and Israel: “Pocan pokes Israel — but where are his constituents?” The site talked with people from the Wisconsin Jewish community expressing different views on the Madison Democrat, who has been critical of Israel. Jewish Insider noted that Rep. […]
Let’s face it, wandering through the desert for 40 years was probably about as much fun as it sounds. So you may not be surprised to learn that given what our people have endured, we sometimes needed a little bit of a boost to find ways in which to “increase in joy.” As we […]
Former Milwaukee Bucks player and general manager Ernie Grunfeld is believed to be the only athlete in NBA history whose parents survived the Holocaust. A longtime figure in the public eye, audiences know very little about Jewish aspects of his life. His son, Dan Grunfeld, himself a former professional basketball player for eight seasons, […]
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