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The work of psychotherapists and other mental health counselors has seen rising importance in recent years, especially since the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. On May 13, Israeli Eitan Spiegel, who performs such services, will visit Milwaukee to discuss his work as part of the annual commemoration of Yom HaZikaron. The day serves as Israel’s

Noa Gerassi, the new Milwaukee community shaliach from Israel, arrived in Milwaukee with her family in mid-August. Less than two months later, the Israeli emissary, at her temporary home in Fox Point, was up late over Shabbat, with her daughter who couldn’t sleep. Gerassi scrolled through her phone and saw the messages on a

FOX POINT - The room was somber, the speakers’ voices filled with anguish, after inconceivable attacks on civilians, at a festival, in their homes, against people of all ages. A variety of Jewish organizations came together Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, to hold a “Community Solidarity Gathering for Israel.” The evening event was held after

Gone is opening the clamshell for a VHS videotape. There's no more hefting big cases of 35-millimeter reel-to-reel tapes. Much has changed, but after 26 years, the three women at the heart of the Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival are still at it. The festival, an annual project of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish