March 16, 2026 | 27 Adar 5786
Yeshiva Elementary School, an institution closely linked to the West Side Twerski community, is facing space issues, with a student population that has grown by about 25 percent since 1999. Administrators are making plans for expansion. Construction could begin in the next couple years, to physically grow the Orthodox school at 5115 W. Keefe Ave. In 1999, before a 2001 expansion, the school had […]
Seemingly half of the school is suddenly juggling. OK, half may be hyperbole. But Chana Laya Gilden observes more of her classmates than usual at Torah Academy of Milwaukee are honing skills commonly spotted under the big top as they prepare to put on their annual play. “One teacher said, ‘I feel like I’m walking into a circus every […]
I remember playing teacher as a little girl. It was something all the girls my age did. We begged our parents to buy us white boards and colorful expo markers so we could role play the people we looked up to most. There was something in that youthful activity that spoke to me; it wasn’t […]
Madison Hillel is one of 13 university Hillels around the country that added a new role to their team to act as an in-between for students and campus administration, given the increasingly antisemitic environment on campuses since Oct. 7. “In addition to seeing record levels of antisemitic incidents, we’re also seeing record levels of engagement […]
FREDONIA – Joey, 17, stood on a high school stage, next to a chuppah, before a very not-Jewish audience of dozens of teenagers, and explained the breaking of glass at a Jewish wedding. “Even in our happiest moments, we still remember that there’s brokenness in the world, like the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, but it officially marks the end of the ceremony and then the […]
MADISON – The divisions in 2025 America were on full display on Oct. 22, at the hearing for a bill to define antisemitism. People spoke with passion, a few minutes at a time, for hours and well through lunchtime on the bill, which is favored by Federations and other mainstream Jewish organizations. The definition in […]
New Israeli Consulate lead Elad Strohmayer has started his tenure in Chicago with the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest as its new consul general. The Bat Yam native, who started the role in September, worked for more than 15 years in U.S.-Israel diplomacy in several U.S. states and most recently Jerusalem, according to a press […]
Maccabi USA and Maccabi Media are now accepting applications for their 2026 Maccabi Media Program, a career-development opportunity for Jewish college students and recent graduates pursuing sports media. Selected participants will cover the Maccabiah Games in Israel and attend a pre-departure training camp in Philadelphia from June 25 to July 20, 2026. Eligible applicants must […]
In July, we had the privilege of a lifetime: to travel with 89 high school students and their chaperones and companions from the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra as part of their tour to Poland and the Czech Republic. Representing MYSO’s cream of the crop, these highly skilled musicians from across southeastern Wisconsin practiced for months […]
When Rabbi Levi Stein started operating Friendship Circle of Wisconsin in 2017, as a bakery that trained people with special needs, he could not have imagined where he was headed. In a few years, Stein would observe the weight of the pandemic on teen mental health, then assign a new mission to Friendship Circle. Even […]
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