Growing up Jewish in Milwaukee and questioning Israel

Israel inspires me by setting an example of openness, recognizing the important issues, and being willing to discuss and debate them.

Coming to Milwaukee: The best decision I've ever made

The Milwaukee Jewish community is my second home. Being able to give back to the community that has given me so much throughout the year is all ...

Paz Goldschmidt - Milwaukee Jewish Federation

Before our schlichut, my connection to being Jewish was built almost entirely around the Holocaust. In Milwaukee, I felt a part of our people. I always knew ...

Genocide is not a Jewish value! says Jewish Voice for Peace

“We are here because we believe we are most Jewish when we stand up for the value of human lives,” announced Jodi Melamed, Ph.D., a member of ...

As A Working-class Kid In My Conservative Community, I Knew I ...

But, I also know I grew up around friends who — almost without question — had more (money) than I. I know I grew up in a Jewish community ...

I Always Felt Religiously Homeless Growing Up—Until I Came to Israel

I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community and was raised by ba'alei teshuva parents. Like many of my parents' generation who were chozer be- ...

Milwaukee Jewish response to war in Gaza reflects tradition of dissent

Berkowitz said his family, who raised him to understand the shared importance of Israeli and Palestinian safety, have supported him as he ...

Teens 'put it all together' in Israel | Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

Rachel Adams' recent trip to Israel “put it all together.” For the 17-year old senior at Nicolet High School, that meant finally visiting ...

Shabbat Messages | Milwaukee Jewish Federation

What are we doing to support Israel in its time of need? Which of the hostages have we taken the time to get to know about personally, so that we are invested ...

By Milwaukee Jewish Federation - Facebook

I grew up in New York so I was around a lot of Jews all the time. Moving somewhere where there wasn't a lot of Jewish people like I didn't ...

Jewish American Families Confront a Generational Divide Over Israel

Gen Z and young Millennials often see Israel as an occupying power oppressing Palestinians — a shock to their parents and grandparents, who tend ...

Elana Kahn: Hatred of Jews as a social bellwether

After leaving the Jewish community of Milwaukee, where her grandfather owned a grocery store in Bronzeville, growing up in Salt Lake ...

Why Wisconsin Was a Great State To Grow Up Jewish - The Forward

There were more jobs in industrial Milwaukee and more housing stock, and so we landed in a poor neighborhood near 10th and North Avenue. We didn ...

CMV: Jews have no legitimate claim to the land of modern day Israel ...

3) Jews earned the right to establish a Jewish state in Israel after it negotiated the Balfour Declaration from Britain. This was a colonial era ...

Atonement for My Zionist Upbringing - Wisconsin Muslim Journal

Growing up, Zionism was a deep part of my identity. I was raised Jewish in an insulated Jewish community. In elementary school, I went to ...

50 years after arriving in Milwaukee, Chabad-Lubavitch movement ...

Yisroel and Devorah Shmotkin were in their early 20s when they decided to leave their Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn to begin their ...

Milwaukee Jewish Federation marks Oct. 7; 1 year since attacks on ...

... Israel. Here's what's known about the Israelis and Palestinians still being held. "I spent time in hostage square. It was a very moving ...

Anti-Israel Coalition at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Issues ...

A coalition of anti-Zionist groups at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has issued an open threat to Jews who support Israel and ...

The generation gap in opinions toward Israel - Brookings Institution

At the same time, some young Jewish Americans feel distant from the story of Israel's founding and the Jewish struggle to gain the recognition ...

Milwaukee Jewish Federation - Facebook

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