November 06, 2025 | 15 Heshvan 5786
Jewish organizations and leaders in Wisconsin are calling on U.S. Senator Ron Johnson to end his opposition to the confirmation of Dr. Deborah Lipstadt as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combatting Anti-Semitism and allow a vote on her confirmation to move forward. The Senate Foreign Affairs committee was slated to vote on […]
A month ago, Maria Stanishevska was attending college in Ukraine, studying biotechnology and bioengineering, texting with her boyfriend and friends on her iPhone. “We lived our best life, and we didn’t think that anything was going to happen,” she said. “We were just like, everything will be fine and trying to be calm. But […]
Milwaukeeans have been spending more time than ever in the home. As a result, people have been aiming to make their homes more functional and convenient, which is reflected in the latest trends in interior design. “We are seeing a lot of people spending more time in their homes and realizing what hasn’t worked […]
Dilli Kittner attends Mount Mary University, an all-girls private Catholic school with fewer than 640 undergraduate students. She joined Hillel Milwaukee last semester and is now the organization’s social justice chair. “I know one or two other Jews at my school, so it’s not really a big community,” she said. But at Hillel Milwaukee, […]
More than 400 free seder meals will be delivered April 10, 2022 to Jews in need, fulfilling a decade’s long tradition in the greater Milwaukee Jewish community known as ma’ot chittim. Ma’ot chittim refers to the age-old practice of donating funds prior to Pesach to help the poor cover their seder expense. With the […]
A recent study commissioned by the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center shows its programs can be a game changer. HERC programming significantly changes the way the young participants think about antisemitism, racism and the Holocaust, according to the survey results. Of about 400 students studied, in both middle and high schools, 77% […]
The overnight camp OSRUI has been updating itself in anticipation of summer 2022, with a new teaching kitchen and the restoration of an original building, among other projects. OSRUI is the Reform movement’s summer camp in the upper Midwest. Over the past several years, OSRUI has taken on a variety of projects aimed at […]
Camp Young Judaea Midwest, a small overnight summer camp in Waupaca that serves people from varying Jewish backgrounds, has focused recent efforts on mental health. Due to the pandemic, camp staff have found that children can struggle to interact with other campers and socialize without the use of screens, according to executive director Robin […]
A young Polish girl, wearing a peasant skirt with her hair in braids and a handkerchief covering her head, showed up unexpectedly one day at the Gestapo headquarters in Warsaw. She told the guards she needed to speak with an official inside about a personal matter. “They showed her to the office. She went […]
The 2022 Salute to Jewish Educators awards will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6 as an event for both in-person and virtual attendees. The awards celebration is an annual recognition of educators sponsored by Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Coalition for Jewish Learning. The honorees include: Lifetime Impact Award – Doris Shneidman (founding director […]
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