Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wife, Olena Zelenska, met on June 20 in Jerusalem. They discussed humanitarian issues, particularly youth post-traumatic stress and Israel’s non-military aid to...
MILWAUKEE – When Israeli Gal Dahan came to America to play basketball for Cardinal Stritch University in Glendale, she came, at least in part, for the superior American basketball facilities. “They call America the land of opportunity, not for nothing,” Dahan told the Chronicle, when she was a 24-year-old junior, back in 2021. Maybe it’s […]
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, […]
Five emissaries from Israel spoke to people from the community at Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun on March 9, 2023, about what it is like to serve in Wisconsin. On the panel were Liron Rephael, shlicha at Northeastern University in Boston; Heni Bizawi, Jewish Agency for Israel fellow with Hillel Milwaukee; Uria Roth, Milwaukee Community Shaliach; […]
ChatGPT is a free (so far) artificial intelligence application that has the tech world abuzz with delight and trepidation. OpenAI released the “chatbot” in November, and it can respond conversationally to complex requests. Google and some college professors see trouble in ChatGPT, because of competition and the potential for cheating, respectively. But as with some […]
Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, a woman in the unusual role of leading an observant community in Israel, is to visit Milwaukee early this month. Mirvis, who makes use of the title “rabbanit,” is the sole spiritual leader for Shirat HaTamar in Efrat, Israel. When she was appointed in 2001, the Times of Israel reported that […]
The State of Israel will turn 75 in 2023, and Jewish organizations in the Milwaukee area are planning to start the year of celebration with a mini-film festival, throughout the month of January. The Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC and Milwaukee Jewish Federation will present the “Faces & Voices of Israel” film event. It […]
At the opulent and grand Emirates Palace, over delicious cardamom spiced Arabian coffee, we asked the Emirati minister of foreign affairs: After spending time in Israel negotiating the Abraham Accords what did he see as the difference between Israelis and Emiratis? He paused, and with a twinkle in his eye replied, “When we Emiratis must […]
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