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Visit Milwaukee's Museum Days opens the doors to area museums like the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, where you'll find a special exhibit.

‘The Bund’ chronicles a key part of Jewish labor history and its legacy for the present, writes Paul Von Blum.

The people honored in the new exhibition at Jewish Museum Milwaukee resisted oppression by saving books from the bonfires.

This is a tough time for American Jews. Antisemitism has erupted to an unprecedented extent. We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck. A few months ago, following the Oct. 7 …

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein decries his country’s legal assault on Israel

We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck.The post It’s time for an American Jewish rethink appeared first on JNS.org.

Activists, community members, volunteers and civil rights groups across New England are coming together Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, part of a nationwide movement to solve social problems through community service.

If one of your resolutions this year is to get more involved in the community, Monday, Jan. 15 brings plenty of opportunities to do so. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day and many groups in the area are marking the holiday with concerts, acts of service and free admission.

There is a well-known verse that is recited at weddings that says: “I raise Jerusalem to the forefront of my celebration.” This symbolizes that all of our joy in exile is mired by a Jerusalem in ruins. The Gemara states that there is a prohibition to express unbridled joy in a world characterized by exile […]

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