The Rubenstein Family Kosher Oasis Café is open, offering a wide range of Jewish foods as one of the few Kosher restaurants in Milwaukee. The restaurant had closed during the pandemic and struggled with resulting staffing shortages.   The Café, located at Ovation Communities, a senior living facility on Prospect Avenue, is open to the public […]

Alan Wolkenstein, our treasured occasional columnist for the Chronicle, died Sept. 30. He is of blessed memory, and we are grateful for his contributions.   He brought a beautiful, folksy, old-world Jewish style to his work, grounded in truth and culture. He was so very real.  We remember him in this edition by presenting several of […]

MILWAUKEE – The Jewish Community Pantry, 2900 W. Center St., provides food and services to those in need – even as demand for help has increased and government assistance has withered. Meanwhile, the pantry is working on plans to expand.  The Jewish Community Pantry is a program of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish […]

Hundreds of schools across Wisconsin will soon hold replica pieces of Holocaust history that will allow students to peer into the lives of those who endured the atrocity.   That’s  thanks to the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC), where staff are creating trunks filled with replicated documents and artifacts from Holocaust victims […]

A group of 15 Jewish college students from Chabad on Campus – Milwaukee, a division of Lubavitch of Wisconsin, traveled to Brooklyn, New York to attend Pegisha, a yearly student Shabbat celebration.   The three-day event, organized by Chabad on Campus – International, took place Nov. 15-17, and brought together more than 2,000 Jewish college students […]

A kosher grocery business in Milwaukee has had a number of what owner Mordechai Bates referred to as “spinach moments.”  Those are moments when customers of QuicKosher, 4833 W. Burleigh St., are ecstatic about a new product. Bates said his wife coined the term after seeing shoppers’ reaction to QuicKosher stocking frozen kosher spinach, a […]