Joan (Joni) Lustig, age 77 of Dayton, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Nov. 23. She was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, Sanford (Sandy). She is survived by her sister, Phyllis Levin (Gearge) of Boynton Beach; her children, Steven Lustig (Nora), David Lustig (Dottie) and

  By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Randy Glaser is the first to admit Jewish genetic testing is a frightening topic. “When you advertise a program about BRCA (hereditary breast and ovarian cancer), you’ll have full attendance a lot of times,” Glaser, chair of the national Jewish Genetic Disease

Ousted rabbi sues previous congregation in Pa. claiming interference with his contract at Dayton synagogue By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In an Oct. 23 letter sent to members of Beth Jacob Congregation, President Dr. Herman Abromowitz wrote that he and the three other executive officers of the synagogue’s

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With much fanfare, Haifa’s director-general arrived in Dayton in September 2009 and signed a memo of understanding with Montgomery County, Dayton Development Coalition and the City of Dayton to expand economic, business and research collaboration, including the opening of a Dayton region trade

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Rabbi Janice Garfunkel, who served as the rabbi of Temple Sholom in Springfield from 2004 to 2010, died on Oct. 26 in Cincinnati after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 54. Born in New Jersey, she and her family moved to

From Nov. 29 through Feb. 23, lithographs of Marc Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows will be on exhibit in the South Gallery of the Dayton Art Institute, on loan from an anonymous local patron. In 1960, the Russian Jewish artist began the process of creating 12 stained glass windows for the Abbell

By Rabbi Judith Chessin, Temple Beth Or I will never forget the insistence of my Classical Biblical Hebrew university professor that “the heroine of the book of Judith was not actually named Judith. This was merely an allusion to the fact that God used the agency of a mere woman

A look at the Holy Book series The Jewish Family Identity Forum By Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer In a (N.J.) opinion piece, Revive the dying art of reading, Frank Breslin notes, “Few high-school students read anymore…It takes too long and is too much trouble…” His observation is

    Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.   To view the print version of the December 2013 Observer, click here.

With Rachel Haug Gilbert, The Dayton Jewish Observer Todd Seaman, a 2013 graduate of the Moritz School of Law at The Ohio State University, recently passed the Ohio bar. Todd works at the Thompson-Hine law firm in Columbus. His parents are Michael and Cindy Seaman of Vandalia. Melissa Frydman, daughter