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Hiking trip across Israel is planned 

Special to the Chronicle | June 8, 2022 | 9 Sivan 5782 | 9 Sivan 5782

  “Hike Israel from Sea to Sea” is a series of short hikes, paired with a trip to the Milwaukee area’s partnership region in the north of the Jewish state, subsidized by Milwaukee Jewish Federation.  The trip is a project of Federation, its Israel Center and the Partnership2Gether network. The approximate cost is $2,900, which includes airfare, accommodation, guided hikes and most meals.   The Sovev Kinneret region, or the area around the Sea of Galilee, is the Milwaukee and St. Paul, Minnesota areas’ partnership region. Participants will hike from the Mediterranean Sea to the...

Marquette student Senate voted for divestment, without any apparent reach-out to Jews 

Marquette student Senate voted for divestment, without any apparent reach-out to Jews 

Special to the Chronicle | May 27, 2022 | 26 Iyyar 5782 | 26 Iyyar 5782

  The Marquette University Student Government Senate passed a resolution supporting the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israel on April 25, 2022, in a unanimous vote of those present.   “Given the current climate of increased antisemitism and isolation that many Jewish students experience on various college campuses and given the current antisemitic attacks that […]

Walk for Israel will be in-person, after pandemic hiatus 

Walk for Israel will be in-person, after pandemic hiatus 

Rob Golub | May 2, 2022 | 1 Iyyar 5782 | 1 Iyyar 5782

  The Milwaukee-area Walk for Israel is back and set to happen in-person again, for the first time since the pandemic abruptly shuttered Wisconsin in March 2020.   The event marks Yom HaAtzmaut, the Israeli Independence Day, and it has historically been the largest annual pro-Israel event in the state.    But the community last walked in-person […]

Israeli helicopter disaster to be remembered at Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Remembrance Day, May 3 in Milwaukee    

Israeli helicopter disaster to be remembered at Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Remembrance Day, May 3 in Milwaukee    

Special to the Chronicle | April 8, 2022 | 7 Nisan 5782 | 7 Nisan 5782

  Twenty-five years ago, tragically, there was a collision of two Israeli Air Force transport helicopters ferrying Israeli soldiers. These lives and others will be remembered on May 3 in Milwaukee.   The Milwaukee Jewish community will honor Israel’s victims of terror, fallen soldiers and veterans of the Israel Defense Forces and other Israeli security services, […]

Druze emissary: Israel is diverse 

Druze emissary: Israel is diverse 

Special to the Chronicle | April 1, 2022 | 29 Adar II 5782 | 29 Adar II 5782

  Gadeer Kamal Mreeh, the first Druze emissary of the Jewish Agency for Israel, wants you to know that Israel is diverse – and that’s beautiful.   Mreeh spoke at Congregation Sinai on March 21 about her personal experiences being a Druze in Israel and how strength in Israel comes from its rich diversity.  The visit […]

Israeli journalist to speak on Ukraine at free virtual event from Jewish National Fund-USA’s Midwest  

Israeli journalist to speak on Ukraine at free virtual event from Jewish National Fund-USA’s Midwest  

Special to the Chronicle | March 30, 2022 | 27 Adar II 5782 | 27 Adar II 5782

  In the midst of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Jews across the Midwest will have the opportunity to hear from an expert on politics in Israel, who recently came back from a journalistic visit to the border of Ukraine and Moldova.  On Wednesday, April 6 at 8 a.m., Gil Hoffman, chief political correspondent and […]

Dr. David Lehrer, of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, to speak at Emanu-El 

Dr. David Lehrer, of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, to speak at Emanu-El 

Rob Golub | February 8, 2022 | 7 Adar I 5782 | 7 Adar I 5782

  The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies has taken on two seemingly impossible tasks.   One is that it exists to assist our beleaguered natural world. Two, it does so by bringing Jews and non-Jewish Middle Easterners together in the Israeli desert to work and study. Yes, together, and no, it does not go perfectly.   Dr. […]

Former student teacher remembers, when Golda revisited her Milwaukee elementary school 

Former student teacher remembers, when Golda revisited her Milwaukee elementary school 

Rob Golub | January 14, 2022 | 12 Shevat 5782 | 12 Shevat 5782

  Sydelle Shulkin said she never thought she’d see “somebody like her” in person.  “It was so exciting,” she said. “To think that the prime minister of Israel was at Fourth Street School!”  Shulkin was a student teacher when Prime Minister Golda Meier visited her former elementary school, back in 1969. Now, Shulkin is a resident at Ovation Communities, and more than 50 years later, she […]

Mike Gousha and Lynn Sprangers donate photos – new info about Golda Meir’s visit to Milwaukee in 1969 

Mike Gousha and Lynn Sprangers donate photos – new info about Golda Meir’s visit to Milwaukee in 1969 

Rob Golub |

  Mike Gousha and his wife, Lynn Sprangers, donated several photos and documents this winter to Jewish Museum Milwaukee, all of it related to Golda Meir’s 1969 visit to her former elementary school in Milwaukee.  Some of it, like a striking photo of Meir hugging a girl, is not new. The museum already had that shot (see cover). But the documents do shed more light on the Israeli Prime Minister’s brief visit to […]