November 07, 2025 | 16 Heshvan 5786
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 […]
When Amnesty International issued a report that accused Israel of being an “apartheid state,” it was “sad” and “frustrating,” according to Yinam Cohen, the consul general of Israel to the Midwest. Cohen commented on the Amnesty International report and other issues during a Feb. 2, 2022, interview with the Chronicle, as he was in […]
Local educator Jennifer Saber is teaching other Jewish educators nationwide, and now a $20,000 boost for the work will be like squirting lighter fluid on a fire, she said. “It is very, very helpful,” Saber said. “This will increase the impact that we’re making and increase the number of people with disabilities who we […]
Children who are adopted can face challenges, from the trauma of separation to the task of developing their own identities. These troubles can be compounded by stereotypes. ”I wish more people understood that there isn’t just one way to be Jewish. There isn’t just one silhouette of what it looks like to be a […]
The Milwaukee Jewish Federation is organizing a “Month of Dialogue” for March, starting with a live comedy event, all of it aimed at generating discussion related to Israel and the interfaith world. “The Month of Dialogue is an opportunity for us to engage in difficult and multilayered conversations in hopes of seeing the nuance […]
The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies has taken on two seemingly impossible tasks. One is that it exists to assist our beleaguered natural world. Two, it does so by bringing Jews and non-Jewish Middle Easterners together in the Israeli desert to work and study. Yes, together, and no, it does not go perfectly. Dr. […]
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 […]
Loading ...