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  By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When the monumental exhibition Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times opens at the Cincinnati Museum Center on Nov. 16, Midwesterners won’t just view the scrolls and 600-plus artifacts from ancient Israel. They’ll also learn about Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute

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Where You Left Me by Jennifer Gardner Trulson Gallery Books, 256 pages, $25 Interview by Jennie Szink, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Eleven years ago, Jennifer Gardner Trulson knew hardly any 30-something widows or widowers. The day after Sept. 11, 2001, it seemed everyone in her life had become

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By Renate Frydman, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The large lecture hall was humming with youthful voices. First-year students at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine — 105 of them — were going to hear a survivor of the Holocaust tell her story. Also on the agenda to

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

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Living by our values By Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer Jewish Family Identity Forum Enveloped by the flimsy bamboo walls and branch-strewn roof of the sukkah, I found myself reflecting upon an unlikely character: Abraham Lincoln. I had recently come across Lincoln’s Great Depression, in which Joshua Shenk

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By Rabbi Nochum Mangel, Chabad of Dayton We have just celebrated Simchat Torah. Synagogues were filled with singing and dancing, parades and happiness, celebrating the gift of Torah. But what do we mean by Torah and why do we celebrate it? We use the word Torah in different ways. Sometimes,

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With Charlotte Golden, The Dayton Jewish Observer Ethan Zappin, a fifth grader at The Miami Valley School, received his black belt in tae kwon do on Sept. 28. Ethan has been training at the Asian Arts Center of Kettering under Head Instructor Matt Pasquinilli since he was 5. His proud

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By Julie Wiener, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer What makes an interfaith (or, really, any) family decide to join or not join a synagogue? That’s the million-dollar question these days. And even though my family is part of this demographic — synagogue-affiliated interfaith family with two kids in Hebrew

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The Jewish Internet with Mark Mietkiewicz If your Rosh Hashanah resolution included learning more Torah, it’s never too late to get started. There are many excellent websites geared toward promoting regular Torah study through the weekly portion, parshat hashavua (http://bit.ly/shavua1) But sometimes, you might want to take a break from

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Tina Marie Kleinman, age 28, of Lebanon, passed away Sept. 29. Ms. Kleinman was a graduate of Bowling Green State University and was currently enrolled at the University of Cincinnati studying pharmacy, so she could be a pharmacist like her grandfather. She was formerly a buyer with Serta Mattress and

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