Lloyd Levin gave this speech beside a bridge in Trévé, France, known for its ties to World War II history. During the event on Aug. 4, 2024, he paused repeatedly so a translator could speak his words in French. Lloyd and Sheri Levin attended a total of five related events that day, marking liberation, lives lost and World War II. When I was contacted by Joseph Collet from France one year ago and informed of the Aug. 4, 2024, 80th year commemoration of the death of my uncle Arthur Grossman here in Trévé, where he died on Aug. 4, 1944, I immediately said that we would attend. I...
Lloyd and Sheri Levin went on a trip this summer that they say they will never forget, to honor a relative alongside the people of France. Here are six things to know about it: * * * * * * Read more about the Levins’ trip, “Wisconsinites in France honored a solider.”
Students sometimes chat with Liran Gerassi about Judaism at the Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. He gets asked in the seminary cafeteria about Jewish blessings before meals. To this, he has explained that there are separate blessings for food and wine. Gerassi leads The Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at the seminary, which […]
Milwaukee Jewish Federation held an event, “Marking One Year: October 7th Commemoration,” at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center. The co-chairs were Melissa Barnett, Elana Karan and Jamie Miller. Hundreds gathered, standing room only with overflow, for an evening of hope and unity, on Oct. 7, 2024. The date marked one year […]
It’s painful. We, the Jewish people, children of genocide, are seeing the Jewish homeland accused of genocide. It cannot be. But it is. The word “genocide” gets tossed around, on social media and elsewhere, possibly without a lot of interest in the meaning of the term. Emotion takes center stage. This may be grounded in […]
Israeli campers attended the Steve & Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC in Eagle River for two weeks this past summer. They are all now back in Israel. They were part of the Campers2Gether program, which brought young people from all over Israel to camps across the United States, after evacuation from their homes since Oct. […]
The past nine months haven’t been the most hopeful time in history, when it comes to yearning for peace between Israel and Palestinians. But in August, a Milwaukee-area synagogue will host an event aimed at laying the groundwork for peaceful resolution – including the appearance of both an Israeli and a Palestinian. The event, which […]
Israel the “Startup Nation,” has long cultivated values of entrepreneurship and resilience as a nation. Home to over 2,000 startups founded in the last decade alone and with the highest R&D expenditure as share of GDP worldwide in 2022, the country attracts hundreds of global corporations. With the horrific attacks on Oct. 7 and the […]
In 1942, in Vilna in what is now Lithuania, a group of Jews worked to hide books, art, and other cultural artifacts from the Nazis. Led by poets Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginskithe group was known as the Paper Brigade of Vilna, and it took and hid the items that had been part of the […]
As a child, Barbara Feigin fled Nazi Germany in 1940 to Chehalis, Washington. A few years ago, her late Jewish father’s journal was discovered, detailing the family’s harrowing escape from Berlin. “I knew that we had escaped from Germany, but I knew none of the details about it, and my parents never spoke about it,” […]
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