Cary Spivak
By Cary Spivak
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News A Feisty Jewish Judge Fights Her Way Through a Bitter Race in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE — As a young girl growing up in Connecticut, Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, who sits on Wisconsin’s second highest tribunal and is now running for state Supreme Court, made what many would consider an unusual, albeit mature decision: She refused a bat mitzvah. Kloppenburg, 62, recalls that she was active in her Conservative shul –…
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News Lawmaker Makes Video Plea for Non-Christians To Convert — on Taxpayer’s Dime
MILWAUKEE — At first glance, the video looks innocent enough – a 50-year-old man, standing before a Christmas tree quoting the Bible and offering a religious Christmas greeting in which he urges non-Christians to convert to Christianity. The video loses its innocence, however, when one learns the speaker is Rep. Scott Allen, a Republican member…
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Art Is This an Anti-Semitic Sculpture or a Rorschach Test?
For five years a sculpture constructed with steel letters stood in a Milwaukee suburb, gathering some attention but no controversy — that is, until a visiting blogger from New Jersey saw it and declared there were antt-Semitic slurs embedded in the artwork. The result was an Internet fury, which culminated in the work quickly being…
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News Unlikely Sukkah Fight Pits Milwaukee High School Students Against Jewish Parents
A group of suburban Milwaukee students received an unexpected lesson in Jewish civics this Sukkot when they sought to build a sukkah at their public school for the second straight year. Administrators at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin, allowed the sukkah last year, which Jewish students said provided an opportunity to educate others about…
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News Can Ryan Braun Repent Enough To Win Back Jewish Fans?
There are two things that every Jewish baseball fan knows about Ryan Braun. First, the Milwaukee Brewer leftfielder is the best Jewish ballplayer in the majors today. Second, as a result of his self-inflicted tsoris, Braun faces the gargantuan challenge of winning back his fans when he returns to baseball next spring, following his 65-game…
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News In Madison, Only Some Jewish Voices Are Heard
At Wisconsin’s Capitol building, in Madison, rabbis and other members of the state’s Jewish community have been a visible presence as protests have swelled in support of state and local public worker unions. But the community’s biggest and most politically influential bodies — its two federations and affiliated community relations councils — have been conspicuously…
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