Sandra L. “Sandy” Dubro, age 74 of Dayton, passed away Nov. 25. Mrs. Dubro retired after 30 years from Dayton Public Schools. She was an avid tennis player. Mrs. Dubro was preceded in death by her parents, Mo and Dorothy Roberts. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Allen DuBro,

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer At its meeting on Nov. 28, the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton hired Cathy Gardner to serve as the Federation’s new executive vice president. Gardner, who lives in Tampa, will begin her work in Dayton on Dec. 10. “Among the

Dayton premiere of locally produced documentary on Ethiopian aliyah By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Fekadu, his wife and children left their Ethiopian village to live in a squalid shelter in Gondar while they waited for their opportunity to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel). A decade later, these Falash

  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

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

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

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

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

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,

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