By Rabbi Judy Chessin, Temple Beth Or It has now been a year since Israel executed Operation Golden Hand, Mivtza Yad Zahav, Feb. 12, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza, successfully rescuing Fernando Simon Marman and Luis Har, Israeli Argentinian hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak.

Raised in Dayton, Larry Roberts hopes The Faces of Israel provides an understanding of Israeli diversity between 1982 and 2015. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Over Larry Roberts’ 50-year career in photojournalism, he’s worked for United Press International, Agence France-Presse, The Blade in Toledo, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

Temple Beth Or kicks off its 40th anniversary year of celebrations Jan. 31-Feb. 1 with a guest cantor for Shabbat and a Jewish game show with dinner. Shabbat service & gala Oneg, Jan. 31 Cantor Rosalie Will, lead consultant for the Union for Reform Judaism on music- and worship-related issues,

Sacred Speech Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer “Words spoken can never be taken back,” mused blogger Lilah Peck. “‘You have a huge nose!’ someone shouted at me in the first grade. I never noticed my nose before, but suddenly every time I looked

In her memoir, Sara Glass explains how she broke away to find her true self By Charlotte Henry, Jewish News (United Kingdom) Speaking to Dr. Sara Glass now, it is hard to believe she is the same person as the one at the start of her memoir, Kissing Girls on

The Grandview Foundation has presented Dr. Judith O’Connell with its Distinguished Service Award. Judith began her work with Kettering Health Dayton/Kettering Health Washington Township in 1980. She’s served as chair of the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine section and as a member of the medical executive committee. She’s a distinguished fellow of

Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site!     To read the complete February 2025 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

Barry A. Greenberg, 73 of Dayton, passed away Dec. 25. Barry was a 1969 graduate of Meadowdale High School. He was a partner of m.l. dunn in Englewood. Barry was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and Annabelle Greenberg. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Murray and

‘We were all young, we all grew up together’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “Oh, I remember it vividly,” Rabbi Judy Chessin says of Temple Beth Or’s first Friday night Shabbat service, Jan. 25, 1985. In the worst snowstorm of that winter, more than 100 people came out

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Thanks to an anonymous donor’s matching gift of $450,000, the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton project has the potential to raise $900,000 over the next two and a half years. With the $3 million Jewish Cemeteries has already raised, that would easily put