April 15, 2025 | 17 Nisan 5785
Here’s how to make a great Seder plate for Passover! Work with your family and have fun doing it. Important tip: Always have an adult help with cutting, gluing, and using Mod Podge! Seder Plate project Materials needed: Process: Show off your plate: Once the Mod Podge is dry, your Seder plate is ready! You […]
Here’s a great way to stand up to the recent increase in antisemitism. Let’s all remember what we love about being Jewish! The Chronicle is sponsoring a 2025 Great Writing Essay Contest, for students, on this topic: “What I love about being Jewish.” The writers of winning essays will receive a $25 gift certificate to […]
Merzy Eisenberg, a founding Hebrew teacher at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, will headline the dozens of area educators who will be honored at this year’s Salute to Jewish Educators awards ceremony held each year by Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Coalition for Jewish Learning. Eisenberg will be honored with the Lifetime Impact Award for her 22 […]
Torah Academy of Milwaukee holds an annual performance, and the show this year is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Prince and the Pauper,” now set in Victorian England during the late 1830s. This photo is of rehearsal. The story follows two young girls — Princess Victoria, heir to the throne, and Penny Canty, […]
The Friendship Circle of Wisconsin is holding a “We Can Save Lives Tour”, a safeTALK Suicide Prevention Training initiative dedicated to the memory of Alderman Jonathan Brostoff, OBM. In tribute to his legacy of service, the tour will travel across Wisconsin, conducting 41 trainings — one for each year of Alderman Brostoff’s life — with […]
The shin shin program has brought Israeli young people to Wisconsin for decades, but this time the annual visitors know that things are different. This year’s shin shins say the current moment is more important than ever. They have come to represent Israel in a post-Oct. 7 world. The new shin shins for 2024 are […]
“How are things on campus? Are you and your students safe?” We’ve heard those questions a lot over the past year, as concerned community members read troubling accounts in the news. Certainly, there are reasons for concern. What might be a surprise to the community is that there are also reasons for hope. From our […]
A new foundation has provided scholarships to students, for the first time in its short history. The student-founded Tisila Foundation provided five students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with scholarships in the 2023-2024 school year. Now, the foundation seeks to expand and reach even more students. The Tisila Foundation is currently fiscally sponsored by the […]
Dearest College Students, This fall you will be entering campus with many important choices to make. You will be choosing majors, thinking about career opportunities and figuring out which exciting extracurricular activities to participate in. You will also be faced with a choice that students in years before you have not had to make. The […]
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “temporarily suspended” five student groups in connection with intimidating Instagram posts directed at those who support Israel. The suspensions came as part of the university’s investigation, according to a July 31 statement. In all, it was five student organizations associated with a coalition that posted “alarming” messages on Instagram, according to the […]
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