October 27, 2025 | 5 Heshvan 5786
Camp Moshava Wild Rose, a rare modern Orthodox Jewish camp in Wisconsin, will welcome back campers for summer sessions this June as the camp continues with renovations and improvements. Over the past few years, Camp Moshava Wild Rose has been busy making big changes. The camp has invested more than $4 million into renovations and […]
When Mandy Singh, educator of Gan Ami Early Childhood Education Center in Mequon, graduated high school, she didn’t know what type of career she wanted. After working in an early childhood center, she realized she liked watching the children reach milestones in their development. This led her to earn her degree in early childhood from […]
The Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center are inviting students, grades 7 through 12, to participate in their 2023 Holocaust Writing and Art Contest. Students should focus on how lessons learned from the Holocaust may assist in combating modern day antisemitism. The submissions should […]
Antisemitism has been on the rise, with recent months seeing public figures making hateful comments about Jewish people and the Holocaust. The Anti-Defamation League reported that 2021 saw the largest number of antisemitic incidents in 40 years. An annual audit by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Milwaukee Jewish Federation has also tracked a significant […]
The Kosher Cooking Club was an idea that came from the local Cteen board, a steering group affiliated with the Cteen house near Nicolet High School. Cteen is affiliated with Chabad of Wisconsin. Club President Golan, 15, remembers that the idea came from a fellow student. Golan worked with the school to officially create […]
GLENDALE – Rabbi Avremi Schapiro bellowed, “Guys, the hummus is going to rock!” A bellow was necessary, over the hubbub of multiple teenagers in conversation, as they sliced, trimmed and mixed. The Kosher Cooking Club at Nicolet High School made shawarma, hummus and Israeli salad on Jan. 11. This was only the club’s third meeting, […]
Enrollment has grown in Milwaukee-area Jewish preschools, day schools, and religious schools, signaling an apparent end to a pandemic-era dip, according to a census of education by the Coalition for Jewish Learning of Milwaukee Jewish Federation. The pandemic took its toll, dropping Jewish educational enrollment from 1,617 in 2019-2020, to 1,377 in 2020-2021. That stark […]
Led by Professor Andrea Schneider, Marquette University program is an ‘inspiration’ . . For Cole Altman, Israel has never been a foreign place. A Jewish kid from Fox Point, the 25-year-old had twice been to the country before heading back this March as part of a Marquette University Law School seminar centered around conflict resolution […]
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein of Glendale has been awarded the 2018-19 Crown graduate fellowship from the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. Stein is a PhD candidate in Musicology in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern. Her research focuses on Jewish identity in classical music, with a focus on 19th […]
Carley S. Mitz Carley S. Mitz will receive a doctor of pharmacy degree from Concordia University, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of Howard and Merele Mitz of Mequon. Carley is the younger sister of Lindsay, who is also a doctor of pharmacy, and a twin sister to Cacey, who has a doctor of pharmacy degree […]
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