Ira Sheskin’s new estimate of about 7,000, up from 4,000 in 2023, reflects more extensive research rather than Jewish population growth. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer There are more of us here than we thought. Significant funding for a national study on the number of Jews in all

By Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA Ira Sheskin is one of the most prominent demographers of American Jews. A professor at the University of Miami, Sheskin helps Jewish communities across the country carry out complicated population surveys. He sometimes works for businesses, too, and several years ago, a major kosher poultry company

By Rabbi Judy Chessin, Temple Beth Or We are living through historic times. American Jews have long lived with an uncomfortable truth: The world is far more sympathetic to powerless Jews than to powerful ones. The writer Dara Horn described the reality bluntly in her book People Love Dead Jews.

By Jon Kalish, NY Jewish Week “When a lady whistled at you on Allen Street, you knew she’s not calling you to a minyan!” So goes a particularly illuminating quote from a lawyer named Jonah Goldstein, describing just how derelict life on the Lower East Side was in July 1913,

In the News Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer Recent headlines tell a sobering story: Human freedoms ‘fallen off the cliff,’ new study reveals. Free speech is facing threats in the US and beyond. ‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global

Four Dayton-area Holocaust survivors — Felix Garfunkel, Larry Katz, Ira Segalewitz, and Yakov Shayevich — are included in the Cincinnati photography exhibit, Holding Hope: Stories of Survival During the Holocaust, on display through June 7 at Union Terminal, under the auspices of the Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center. Survivors’ stories

One Survivor’s Story is the theme of this year’s Greater Dayton Yom Hashoah Remembrance, with programs for children, teens, and adults on Sunday afternoon, April 19 at Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. Holocaust survivors Felix Garfunkel and Larry Katz will participate in a community conversation facilitated by Beverly Farnbacher

The Hashayara ensemble from Israel’s Galilee will perform and Cincinnati-based Israeli Sapir Madar Coulson will prepare a kosher Israeli/Moroccan dinner for Celebrate Israel at 78, Wednesday, April 22 at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. and the concert

JCC Executive Director Marc Jacob informed parents March 2 that Preschool Director Katie Lagasse has stepped away from her job. “She has been dealing with several medical issues,” Jacob wrote of Lagasse in his email. “Unfortunately, because of these issues, Katie has made the very difficult decision to leave her

Beth Abraham Synagogue will continue to hold its worship services at Temple Israel in April, according to Beth Abraham President Julie Liss-Katz. “There are still many moving parts in the remediation and construction, so it’s hard to project when we’ll be back in the building,” she said, referring to the