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With Scott Halasz, The Dayton Jewish Observer Steven and Mary Solomon earned a pretty cool honor from Preservation Dayton Inc. After purchasing a prairie-style house on Squirrel Road in Dayton’s Five Oaks neighborhood, Steven and Mary fixed it up from top to bottom and for their efforts received an Excellence

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Forgiveness is the first step toward reconciliation. By Yousef Bashir, Brandeis Magazine I was born and raised in the Gaza Strip. For years, Israeli soldiers based in Kfar Darom were my “neighbors.” Although the soldiers’ settlement was illegally established on my father’s land, he never gave me any reason to

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By Lois Goldrich, The Jewish Standard What is genius? Is it innate? Does it require both talent and recognition? And who decides who is a genius, anyway? Janice Kaplan will address these questions Nov. 12 as part of the JCC’s Virtual Cultural Arts & Book Series. A journalist, television producer,

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By Gerri Miller, Los Angeles Jewish Journal You may not be familiar with writer Alan Zweibel, but you definitely know the comedy legends who have delivered his jokes. As a double Emmy winner for Saturday Night Live (1975-80), he created characters and sketches for Gilda Radner and her castmates; co-created

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By Judy Bolton-Fasman, JewishBoston.com Sex trafficking and exiting prostitution have been longstanding concerns for American Israeli author and social justice activist Talia Carner. She addresses it directly in her new novel, The Third Daughter. Carner first encountered the topic in 1995 when she attended the fourth World Conference on Women,

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By Tyler Buchanan, Ohio Capital Journal Most young Americans believe antisemitism exists in the United States today. Yet a striking number have little to no knowledge about the Holocaust. That’s a problem Ohio legislators hope to resolve through a proposed commission to better educate people about the atrocities of genocides.

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Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.     To read the complete November 2020 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

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Rosetta E. Friedman, 74, of Miamisburg, passed away Oct. 5 at Sycamore Hospital. She was born June 11, 1946 in Germantown. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Alan G. Friedman; daughters, Melissa (Goldie) and Scott McCollum, Amanda (Goldie) and Bret Howard and Elizabeth (Friedman) and Frank VanSkoyck;

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The University of Dayton’s annual Kristallnacht remembrance will be livestreamed on YouTube this year from the Immaculate Conception Chapel at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10. Shelley Inglis, executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, will be the speaker for the observance, which will also feature UD’s World

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The Dayton Region Israel Trade Alliance, in partnership with Montgomery County Business Services and the Dayton Development Coalition, will present its annual Foreign Military Financing Program, via Zoom, 10 a.m.-noon, Wednesday, Oct. 28. The webinar’s aim is to help Dayton-area companies in aerospace, manufacturing, and defense industries learn to bid

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