Jesuit university inspired Chicago native to enter the rabbinate By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg was an undergraduate at Loyola University in Chicago, a priest who taught his early modern history class asked him what he was doing Jewishly. Up to that point, he says,

By Alisa Thomas, Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Children in grades K to six saw a new face this summer at the DJCC’s Camp Shalom and learned more about life in the Jewish state along the way. Shahaf Zur joined the camp staff as a shaliach (the Hebrew word for

By Rabbi Levi Simon Chabad of Greater Dayton A story is told about Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), the founder of the Chasidic movement. One day as Rabbi Yisrael was walking through the forest with his students, he pointed out a leaf that had just blown off of a

Dayton Jewish Observer Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss received two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association at its annual conference. AJPA announced the winners of its 2013 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism in  Seattle on June 26. Weiss received the first-place award for Excellence in

A look at the Holy Book: A new series The Jewish Family Identity Forum with Candace R. Kwiatek The Dayton Jewish Observer In May 2012, U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski proposed eliminating the first four of the Ten Commandments when displayed on government property in response to an ACLU lawsuit

The Jewish Internet with Mark Mietkiewicz   It may not be a famous Jewish food like challah, blintzes or latkes. Heck, it may not be even be the most famous Jewish food that starts with a “k” like kugel, kishka or kreplach. But thanks to an odd conjunction of one

  Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.

Margaret ‘Margie’ Shane, age 58 of Los Angeles, passed away after a lengthy illness, on July 12. Ms. Shane graduated from Harrison High School (’73) in Evansville, Ind. where she spent her entire childhood. She attended Miami University (Oxford) and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in advertising/communications.

  Photos & Story By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer If it wasn’t the first Chasidic wedding here, it was a rare occasion for Dayton when Sarah Mangel married Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld on the balmy evening of June 12. Sarah is the oldest daughter of Chabad of Greater Dayton

‘The rewards just can’t be taken away from you’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer A few weeks before the death of Beth Abraham Synagogue member Adele Tilson at age 89, Rabbi Bernard Barsky visited her in Columbus. “Adele was very, very frail,” Barsky says. “I could hardly hear