Yamim 2025, three days of commemoration for the Jewish community, falls this year between April 27 and May 4.  They are Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day; Yom Hazikaron, or Israel’s Day of Remembrance; and Yom Haaztmaut, or Israel’s Independence Day. RSVP at Milwaukeejewish.org/Yamim.  The Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day event, is slated for […]

Rabbi Wes Kalmar traveled to Israel in February with a small group of rabbis from the Rabbinical Council of America, a 1,000-member rabbinic organization. The purpose of the mission was to try to bring some comfort to people in Israel who have gone through suffering. A version of this article originally appeared in a mass […]

Welcome to our Passover 2025 special section of the Chronicle, which we begin with photos from a recent seder aimed at bringing community together. The Jewish Community Relations Council of Milwaukee Jewish Federation and Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee held the model Passover Seder for about 50 interfaith and community leaders on March 10.  Rabbi Noah […]

MADISON – Madison Hillel has converted its meat-based restaurant into a dairy coffee shop, now serving Caribou Coffee.   The now-coffee shop, and a growing catering and delivery business that serves meat from a separate kitchen, are together called Adamah Neighborhood Table. It’s all operated by Madison Hillel. The restaurant-turned-cafe may have lost out to a […]

The Coalition for Jewish Learning and Israel Center organized a multi-synagogue, intergenerational field trip to Chai Point to create a “Wings of Hope” art piece, which will be displayed during a Yom HaZikaron ceremony on April 27.  Residents of Chai Point and 50 students in 2nd through 5th grade from five Milwaukee synagogues joined together […]

Milwaukee Jewish Federation has created a new community security service, called the Wisconsin Jewish Security Network.   Launched in recent weeks, the Wisconsin Jewish Security Network is projected to grow from its current roster of about 15 full-time, armed security officers, to at least 30 over the next 18 months.  The immediate roster of 15 is […]