An anniversary celebration, a backyard concert and a camping trip are just a few of the activities the residents of Milwaukee’s first Moishe House are planning for their second year in operation. Leah Biller and Nicole Gorelik opened the city’s first Moishe House in June 2021, expanding the reach of a nonprofit with locations across the country and around the world. Moishe House, based in California, began in 2006 to engage Jewish young adults. The nonprofit provides resources for Jewish adults to live together in a house that also plays host to programming for the local community....
“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 […]
During a sing-along session at Camp Interlaken in Eagle River about six years ago, the lyrics on one song instructed girls and boys to physically separate. Another song split up boys from girls by their singing voice. The lyrical segregation did not sit well with camp officials at the Steve & Shari Sadek Family […]
Oh, 2022, why do you have to be so difficult? Milwaukee resident Sarah Hendrix has had to jump through hoops to plan her perfect Jewish wedding for 2022. Hendrix and Jeremy Walker will marry in September at The Atrium in Shorewood. Something about 2022, after years of pandemic living, has changed wedding planning, Hendrix […]
Jessica Sectzer-Rubin’s grandfather worked in the family bakery in Poland before he was deported to Auschwitz and survived as a forced laborer. When Nazis broke into their bakery, they beat him and his father until they bled, then shoved her great-grandfather’s face into a bag of flour. Sectzer-Rubin, 43, relays these traumatic events in […]
Holocaust educators who travel Wisconsin to train the state’s teachers have noticed something – their lessons are needed. “There’s a lot that’s being taught that isn’t necessarily right, and we want to make sure they get it right,” said Mark Miller, board chair of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a […]
It was little more than a year ago. On April 28, 2021, Gov. Tony Evers signed the Wisconsin Holocaust education bill into law. Starting with the new school year in September, Wisconsin middle and high schools are required to teach the Holocaust and other genocides. Activists from the Wisconsin Jewish community and others lobbied […]
MILWAUKEE – There are major differences between the Jewish and Asian experience in America, but there’s common ground, too. “There is a need for us to address what it means to be an ‘other,’” said Ron Kuramato, president of the Japanese American Citizens League – Wisconsin Chapter, during a May 22, 2022, panel discussion. […]
A couple of years ago, Rabbi Levi Stein, who runs Friendship Circle, a Milwaukee organization that works with children and adults with disabilities, had a perplexing situation on his hands. One of the organization’s new employees, a disabled man in his 40s, did not show up the first few times he was scheduled to […]
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 […]
Annette Schwartzman, a retired attorney, said there’s a lot that’s good in her Grandparents Chavurah, which is co-organized by Mequon Jewish Preschool and Ovation Communities. Ovation Communities is a local Jewish faith-based organization, offering a continuum of senior living and care options. Mequon Jewish Preschool and Ovation Communities have combined efforts to help grandparents […]
Bader Hillel Academy named a new principal and assistant principal, both within the last year. In September, Rabbi Sholom Ber Munitz was named Bader Hillel Academy’s Judaic Studies principal. Prior to the appointment, he taught fifth and sixth grade Judaic studies at Bader Hillel for 11 years, in addition to serving as the rabbi […]
As tragedy unfolded at the Ukraine-Polish border, two women from Jewish Milwaukee went there to see it, understand it, and report back. Representatives of Milwaukee Jewish Federation traveled to the Ukrainian border in Poland to witness what has become the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, in the wake of Russia’s bloody Ukraine […]
Love watching Shark Tank? Wisconsinites can also view a local, more positive take on the hit television show. Every week, viewers across Wisconsin can tune in for a new episode of “Project Pitch It,” a show where Wisconsin entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to a panel of leading business moguls and win awards to […]
Anti-Jewish incidents are on the rise, including the Jan. 21 synagogue hostage-taking in Texas, antisemitic graffiti in Chicago and hateful fliers distributed in Wisconsin. A 4% decrease in reported antisemitic incidents from 2020-2021, in Wisconsin, is the thinnest of silver linings. The reality is that Wisconsin antisemitic incidents are up 459%, from 2015 to […]
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