Wednesday January 22, 2025 | 22 Tevet 5785
Thursday, Jan. 5 Film: ‘Karaoke’ “Faces & Voices of Israel: Film Screening of ‘Karaoke.’” First in a three-part film series presented by Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival, and Milwaukee Jewish Federation examining aspects of life in Israel. Films followed by talk-backs and group discussions featuring Community Shaliach Uria Roth. […]
Milwaukee native Henya Federman is on life support following a tragic accident in the Virgin Islands. Henya and her husband, Rabbi Asher Federman, have been the Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries to the Virgin Islands for the past 17 years. Henya is the daughter of Rabbi Yisroel and Devorah Shmotkin, founders and leaders of Chabad Lubavitch […]
NextGen, a program of Milwaukee Jewish Federation, is planning a holiday-inspired, football-crazed celebration of lights and touchdowns. The Green Bay Packers host the Rams Monday, Dec. 19, 7:15 p.m. A pre-game gathering with appetizers and drinks starts at 6 p.m., with the event planned to run until 11 p.m. Attend the event, at Amped […]
A talk with an Israel water expert has been rescheduled from an earlier date in November to Jan. 8, 10 a.m., 10-11:30 a.m. “Cleaning Lakes and Fighting Climate Change Two Birds – One Stone?” is sponsored by Congregation Sinai’s Israel Connection program. Oori Weisshaus, PhD, is chief technology officer at Blue Green Water Technologies, […]
Leaders from Milwaukee Jewish Federation joined more than 1,200 Jewish communal leaders in Chicago at Jewish Federations’ three-day General Assembly, where they set the shared Jewish communal agenda for the year ahead and heard from a diverse array of voices on critical issues facing the North American Jewish community, according to a news release. […]
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle is offering a remote journalism internship for college students. The Chronicle has one opening for summer 2023 and another for fall 2023 during the school year. Full-time jobs and other internships often require or prefer previous professional experience. The Chronicle internship is designed to provide you with a good rung […]
He’s concerned, so he wrote about it. In 2018, former judge Charles Benjamin Schudson, a Jewish Milwaukee native, published a book exploring the pressures on the independence of judges. Today, his concerns have only continued, or grown larger. “Independence Corrupted: How America’s Judges Make Their Decisions,” is a tour of what happens behind the scenes […]
“It is important for families to think about the homes that they want to create for their families before they are married and before raising children,” said Rabbi Noah Chertkoff, Congregation Shalom, Fox Point. “If they have decided on having a Jewish home in which one parent is not Jewish then they might consider […]
“I understand why we call it the December dilemma,” said Rabbi Moishe Steigmann, founder and director of the Wisconsin-based Own Your Judaism. “Part of it is, it’s catchy to the ear, the alliteration. There’s a little bit of tension embedded within that heading. I tend to reject the idea that this is a December […]
For Rabbi David Cohen, from Congregation Sinai in Fox Point, the composition of an interfaith family can be much more complex than one may initially think, which can impact how to approach the “December Dilemma.” One of the most common definitions associated with interfaith partnerships are a partner from a Jewish background and a […]
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