Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah

ASKT located in Glendale, Wisconsin is an Orthodox Jewish community led by Rabbi Wesley Kalmar.

About ASKT

Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah (ASKT) is an Orthodox synagogue, located within an eruv, in the northshore Milwaukee suburb of Glendale, Wisconsin. Our shul was founded in 1986 by 17 families and has since grown to 100 families; many are Shabbat observers who live in close proximity to the shul. We have a daily minyan for Shacharit. Mincha/Maariv meets during all seasons, except for the winter when there is late Maariv instead. Classes, for both men and women, are taught by our rabbi as well as visiting rabbis and community members. We also have well-attended, regular scholar-in-residence programs and many social activities and learning programs, including a women’s monthly Tehillim group. In our participatory shul, members are actively involved in services through leading davening and reading the Torah, and are innovative in creating programming and organizing holiday events. As a Zionistic shul, we incorporate prayers for the IDF and the State of Israel into our davening, and we participate in community-wide Yom Yerushalayim and Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations.

One of the most impressive things about ASKT is our palpable sense of community. Besides celebrating Shabbat, holidays and Jewish lifecycles together, we are always here for one another. Whether it is a prayer for good health, help finding a new job, babysitting information or milk from the grocery store, the culture in our community is to help without hesitation.

About the Jewish Community of Glendale, Milwaukee

Where does a close-knit Milwaukee community, brimming with Midwestern hospitality and vibrant Jewish values, live? Why, Glendale, of course!

Glendale, adjacent to two crowning jewels of the Milwaukee County Park System, is a suburban neighborhood with a population of 14,000 in a metropolitan county of over 1.2 million. When it comes to location, our neighborhood doesn’t get any better. We love being just three minutes from Interstate Highway 43; five minutes from Hillel Academy and the newly remodeled JCC; ten minutes from the Kosher Meat Club grocery; and 20 minutes from the airport. We have three lovely mikva’ot within a ten minute drive (although we value the importance of having a mikvah within walking distance and hope to build one in the near future).