By Sam Heider I was born in Poland in a small village by the name of Biejkow, the son of Jewish farmers. We were six children: three brothers, three sisters, my mother and my father. When Germany occupied Poland, we were forced to leave and go to a ghetto in

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Spurred by financial losses, Dayton’s Jewish Family Services will eliminate programs and services that duplicate those offered in the general community, to focus on projects JFS clients can receive nowhere else. This will mean closing its congregate meal site at Covenant Manor in

Veteran broadcast journalist to open Federation campaign May 3 By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Former NBC news correspondent and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory says his wife — a Protestant — challenged him to dig deeper into his Jewish background. “I’ve been studying with a group of

By Masada Siegel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Molly Rosen’s first taste of anti-Zionism and antisemitism on campus turned her into an activist. In 2012, she was a newly-elected student government representative at the University of Michigan. At a student government meeting, an Ann Arbor resident said, “Anyone wearing

By Kristen Mott , Cleveland Jewish News Toledo student government passes first BDS resolution in state The University of Toledo student government passed a divestment resolution during an open forum meeting March 3. This is the first divestment resolution passed by a university student government in Ohio. The Toledo chapter of

  By Dr. David M. Novick 1. The issues are urgent. Iran was the most pressing issue at this year’s policy conference. Iran’s nuclear weapons quest is a direct threat to American interests and an existential threat to Israel. Two years ago, a combination of tough diplomacy and mounting sanctions brought

By Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Documentary makers often get their ideas from the front page. Nancy Spielberg discovered the forgotten late-1940s saga that gives wings to Above and Beyond on the obituary page. “I found out about Al Schwimmer, and that this guy, an American, was considered

By Karen Davis, Jewish Women’s Archive “I believe in tit for tat, and if that’s the case someone owes me a lot of tat.” That quote begins well-researched documentary about Sophie Tucker, the bawdy singer and comedian known for being “the last of the red-hot mamas.” And thanks to the producing-writing

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The Dayton Jewish Observer Vegetarian food brought Cantor Jenna Greenberg and Rabbi Josh Ginsberg together. The two met as students at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, when a classmate organized a singles dinner at a kosher vegetarian restaurant in Chinatown. Greenberg had become a vegetarian in her teens,