Mendel Mangel, son of Devorah and Rabbi Nochum Mangel, has received his rabbinic ordination through Chabad’s Machon Limud Halacha Lemaan Yilmedu program.

Orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Marc Lubitz is now practicing with Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Miamisburg. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Marc graduated from Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. He completed his fellowship in sports medicine and shoulder replacement surgery in Phoenix after his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Marc specializes in shoulder, knee, and elbow injuries.

Clara Hochstein celebrated her 100th birthday on Sept. 28 with friends and family. She received proclamations honoring her from the state of Ohio and from the city of Oakwood, where she and her husband, the late David Hochstein, owned and operated their fur business for 26 years.

Kyra Smith, managing director of University of Dayton’s Roger Glass Center for the Arts, will teach the remote course, Yiddish Theatre From Then to Now, Monday afternoons, Nov. 25 to Dec. 16 for Case Western Reserve University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning program. Kyra has also just received her Ph.D. in theatre from Louisiana State University.

The JCC Early Childhood Education program has joined a pilot program of the Penn State Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative and Penn State’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Initiative. Over a series of classes, educators learn to model empathy and create equitable learning spaces. Dayton’s JCC is one of four JCCs in the pilot. ECE instructors enrolled in the course are Director Katie Lagasse, Assistant Director Rebecca Levi, Julie Dickinson, and Melissa Flaim.

Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua welcomed its rabbinic intern for the year, Jonathon Benzion, in October. Jonathon was born in Mexico City, lived in Israel, and holds a Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American studies from the Sorbonne in Paris. He’s a fourth-year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

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