Uria Roth News Today

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

This moment is not an easy one for Uria Roth, the Milwaukee community shaliach, affiliated with Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Roth is to bring his family back home to Israel this summer, after his four years on the job here in Wisconsin. He’s looking forward to it, and yet he’s stressed. He’s worried. He knows he’s

Milwaukeeans of Jewish and Palestinian heritage are spending their days in turmoil as they watch violence raging in the Middle East, in many cases endangering family and friends. Both groups speak of the situation with deep emotion and, at times, strong rhetoric. The one bit of common ground: concern for people caught in the worst violence in the area since 2014. The latest round of fighting began after weeks of rising tension over the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinian famil...