Halfway through college Miles Guralnick realized that he wanted to become a doctor. After graduating last year, his current internship at Hadassah’s Biological Psychiatry Lab in Jerusalem is putting him one step closer to doing so. “It’s psychiatric research that is working towards being able to better treat all sorts of mental illnesses, including depression, schizophrenia, OCD, really anything you can imagine. We're testing different, new psychotropic drugs to be able to one day have better treatments for everyone,” he said. Guralnick works hands-on in the psychotropic...
Neither the air pollution nor the clouds blocked the view of the Tien Shan mountains on the Sunday when I took a bus across Almaty to find the grave of a famous Hasidic rabbi. I paced outside the cemetery while translating the Russian sign on the gate. The sign said the cemetery was closed on […]
Recent changes have made the future of the economy uncertain. But Geoff Colvin, Fortune magazine’s senior editor-at-large, will be in Milwaukee on Monday, June 26 to discuss this new economic order and what risks and opportunities it presents during his keynote speech at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s 2023 Economic Forum. Born and raised in the […]
Even those casually acquainted with the history of World War II and the Holocaust remember that the Beer Hall Putsch was instrumental in the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. But one man has done extensive research into the role beer, beer halls and other alcohol consumption played in the Nazi reign of […]
Hundreds of teachers from around the state gathered for the annual conference of the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, the organization’s first since a law mandating Holocaust education went into effect, marking a critical juncture for an ongoing effort to get educators acclimated with the challenging topic and its relevance. During the three-day conference […]
Milwaukee native Sara Miller was just 12 years old when she had to experience one of the worst tragedies in life — the sudden loss of her sister Laura. But the life her sister saved through organ donation motivated Miller to advocate for donation throughout her education and beyond. At just 26-years-old, Miller is the […]
Joel Chasnoff formed a connection to Israel at a young age, even though he grew up over 6,000 miles away in Chicago attending Solomon Schechter Day School and Camp Ramah in Wisconsin during the summer. The author and comedian has dedicated his work to portraying Israel outside of news headlines and educating Jewish communities about […]
Milwaukee is to honor Israel’s victims of terror and fallen soldiers and veterans of the Israel Defense Forces and other Israeli security services, as well the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Professor Yoram Eshet-Alkalai, who survived the Yom Kippur War, is to help mark the moment. Eshet-Alkalai was a young paratrooper and father, […]
This moment is not an easy one for Uria Roth, the Milwaukee community shaliach, affiliated with Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Roth is to bring his family back home to Israel this summer, after his four years on the job here in Wisconsin. He’s looking forward to it, and yet he’s stressed. He’s worried. He knows he’s […]
They’re the best of friends, but in the video, they holler at one another about the Israeli-Palestinian shared walk of pain and turmoil, that unyielding problem. Their video, “Let’s Talk Straight,” has garnered more than 1 million views, a viral sensation. One man is actually Palestinian, the other an actual Israeli Jew, and both play […]
Jewish Federations of North America, in partnership with Milwaukee Jewish Federation and other federations, has launched an earthquake relief fund to provide humanitarian aid and to support recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria. Swaths of the two nations were devastated by earthquakes that reached a magnitude of 7.8 on Feb. 6, 2023. The death count […]
When she was a child, Julia Brunson would run around the European Village at the Milwaukee Public Museum and peek through the windows of the replica homes representing different nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in amazement of what life was like in a distant place generations ago. “I would go there and I would see the […]
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