Saturday January 19, 2019 | 12 Shevat 5779
MILWAUKEE – Start-up culture requires some key ingredients. Technology companies need to get ethical. Big change is coming. Those were among the messages of Kara Swisher, a New York Times contributing opinion writer who spoke at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Economic Forum 2018. Held Oct. 30 at The Pfister Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee, the […]
Eva Huffaker was shocked and horrified. Before she started classes on a day in November, the Baraboo School District freshman learned about a photo of her peers. The image, which dates back to prom in the spring, appears to show boys in the then-junior class posing in the position of a sieg heil – […]
Looking to make more friends, have fun and explore your Jewish identity? If you are a Jewish teen in grades 9-12, register for NFTY-NO Winter Kallah. The event is one weekend long, from Friday, Jan. 4 at 6 p.m. to Sunday, Jan. 6. No need to travel far. The event is local and hosted […]
Ferrante’s Restaurant & Signature Catering in Mequon has delighted taste buds and filled stomachs for over four decades. Many of its dishes are original family recipes from Rome that have remained unchanged. Like some Italian-American restaurants, Ferrante’s—as its name suggests—offers catering. But unlike other Italian-American restaurants, Ferrante’s offers kosher catering. How’d that come to […]
“There Are Jews Here,” directed by Brad Lichtenstein of Milwaukee, will make its U.S. television premiere and streaming debut in early December. It’s to show through the World Channel and WorldChannel.org as part of the current season of America ReFramed, public media’s award-winning documentary series. It will also be available to stream for free […]
Seth Meyers will return as the headline performer for Laugh It Up Milwaukee, the annual fundraiser that celebrates community partnership, organized by the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center. Meyers is an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and current host of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. He will take the Pabst Theater stage at 8:30 […]
For those getting married and starting a family in their early twenties or even late teens, attending university is often a means to an end. Eager to get started on a family and career, and to contribute financially, many Torah Academy of Milwaukee alumni strive to finish their education “as soon as they can,” […]
MILWAUKEE – Hannah Rosenthal holds up a spiral notebook, with one page chock-full of bullet points. Next to each one, she’s penned a big checkmark. “I have a bucket list that I created when I came, on this piece of paper,” she says, adding that she knew it was time to go when the […]
This article appeared in a 1936 edition of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. The headline was, “The Lone Eagle of Science,” followed in smaller font by “An Indirect Interview with Sigmund Freud.” Nov. 13, 1936 Sigmund Freud has not granted any interviews for many years. Miss Strauss, Vienna correspondent of the Seven Arts—Worldwide service, succeeded […]
MILWAUKEE – Tikkun Ha-Ir, the local social action nonprofit, is seeking volunteers to help with its get-out-the-vote effort on Sunday, Nov. 4, from noon to 2 p.m. Volunteers will pair up and knock on doors in the vicinity of the Mill Road Library, which is part of a network of city libraries offering early […]
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