By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Peter H. Wells, who served as executive vice president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton from 1978 until his retirement in 2005, died June 3 in Indiana. He was 86. He and his wife, Joan, had recently moved from Sarasota, Fla. to

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer One fought at the Battle of Antietam. Another was an orderly and then worked in the U.S. Telegraph Office at Cumberland Gap. A third defended Cincinnati against the threat of a Confederate invasion. One went on to live a long life surrounded by

$100K is goal for coming budget year to unlock LiveSecure matching grant from JFNA. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In addition to its $1.2 million annual campaign, the Jewish Federation launched a second-line campaign at its Presidents Dinner on May 17 — to raise its $100,000 portion of

By Carin M. Smilk, JNS Everyone has heard of the unlikely hero—that person who, despite all odds, comes to the rescue. And then there’s the likely hero — that person trained to do the right thing as a result of career and happenstance. In the movies, such roles are often

Review by PJ Grisar, Forward Art Spiegelman’s life was always doomed to be one that wrestled with a larger legacy — or a 500-pound mouse. In his book Breakdowns, about his artist’s journey, he illustrated his Holocaust survivor father, Wladek, giving him a Yiddish-syntaxed lesson in packing. “Use what little

Review by Simi Horwitz, Forward Early in Nir Bergman’s Pink Lady, Bati (Nur Fibak), a married Haredi woman and the mother of three children, is riding a city bus when she becomes aware of a dark-skinned man, perhaps an Arab, eyeing her. She is at once attracted, intrigued, and profoundly

By Andrew Guckes, Baltimore Jewish Times Abby Ginzberg has made a lot of films. None, however, was as important or as personal to her as Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold. Ginzberg, as it turns out, is a distant relative of Szold and the granddaughter of

Dayton ophthalmologist Dr. Mike Bloom will share his experiences of volunteering to care for wounded patients at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel over the last two years, at the American Friends of Soroka Medical Center’s Hope, Healing, and Heroism Dinner, 6 p.m., Wednesday, June 17 at the Boonshoft Center

In the news series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer ‘America Is On Track To Literally Die Off,’ New Fertility Data Warns. Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born. Falling birth rates could upend global economy in 20 years. The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t

By Sam Fisher, Cincy Jewfolk A Springboro man faces charges of ethnic intimidation and menacing following an incident outside a Jewish school in Golf Manor. Jackson Mettler, 19 of Springboro, was charged in connection with a May 4 incident at Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati on Section Road. “A Jewish child should