September 07, 2025 | 14 Elul 5785
MILWAUKEE – Jonathan Brostoff, a city alderman and former state Assembly representative – a man who loved Milwaukee, gaming, family, people, Israel and Judaism, a passionate fighter for what he believed in – died by suicide Monday, Nov. 4. His death came as a shock in the Milwaukee area, though Brostoff wrote publicly about his […]
Sol “Poppi” Blumenfeld Sol “Poppi” Blumenfeld, a cherished member of the Madison, Wisconsin community, died peacefully on October 22, 2024. Born on May 28, 1925, in Milwaukee, Sol grew up in Wausau. His family owned and operated a fruit and vegetable market there, and Sol grew up understanding the values of hard work and responsibility. […]
Jacob Assa Jacob Assa died on Oct. 12, 2024, at the age of 79. Beloved husband of Frances Assa (nee Peltz). Loving father of Sharone Assa, Danielle (Nathan Zimmermann) Assa and Carmel (Ethan Rosen) Assa. Proud grandfather of Eitan Menachem Assa, Gabrielle Paz Assa and Reuven Assa-Zimmermann. Dear brother of the late Menachem (Roberta) Assa. […]
Milwaukee lost a treasure last month when Holocaust survivor, speaker and author Edith Shafer, passed away. Shafer was 83. Shafer died on Sept. 9 after suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s over the last several years, her family said. She wrote “Shanghai Deliverance” about her parents and grandfather, who escaped Nazi Germany and lived in a […]
Boris Bakalinsky Boris Bakalinsky died on May 25, 2024 at the age of 86. Beloved husband of Svetlana Bakalinsky (nee Sidelman). Loving father of Boris (Anna) Bakalinsky. Further survived by three grandchildren, other relatives and friends. Graveside service held May 26, 2024, at Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel Cemetery, Milwaukee. Rabbi Moishe Rapoport officiated. Goodman-Bensman Whitefish Bay […]
Randal N. Arnold Randal Neil Arnold died on July 8, 2024. He was 70. Randal Neil Arnold was born on Nov. 23, 1953, in Edgerton to Dorothy and Jess Arnold. He was the youngest of three siblings, growing up as an only child on a dairy farm along the Rock River. He had the life […]
Marsha Fensin Marsha Fensin, 78, died Monday, April 15, 2024, in Waukesha with her children by her side. She had fought a courageous battle with cancer. Marsha was born Dec. 18, 1945, in Haifa, Israel to Simon and Ruth Gelbart, both Holocaust survivors. She attended Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach, Florida and Stetson University […]
Anita Joyce Barmash Nita Barmash (nee Frank), formerly of Fox Point, died in Florida on March 13, 2024, at the age of 88. Beloved wife of the late Ronald Barmash, loving mother of the late Linda (Ira) Abrams, Steven (Rochelle) Barmash, and Richard (Laura) Barmash; proud grandmother of Ben (Megan) Barmash, Drs. Elizabeth Barmash and […]
Randall “Randy” Aronson Randall “Randy” Aronson died Feb. 2, 2024, at the age of 73. Beloved husband of Karen Aronson (nee Cobb). Cherished father of Cara (fiancé Deron Coleman) Aronson, Ian Aronson, and Marisa Aronson. Further survived by other loving relatives and dear friends. Funeral services held Feb. 7 at the Goodman-Bensman Whitefish Bay Funeral […]
You might say Senator Herb Kohl’s breathtaking record of service to Jewish Wisconsin, and beyond, started when he was a boy. In 1948, the Chronicle reported, in the tiniest of tiny articles, that a teenaged Herb Kohl “turned over the money he recently received as Bar Mitzvah gifts … to the campaign for the Milwaukee […]
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