The Jewish Internet By Mark Mietkiewicz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Purim is almost here and if you just can’t wait, you can carry a Megillah wherever you go — or at least a noisemaker or two — if you’ve got an iPhone (or iPod touch or iPad). A

Helen Goldman, age 93, passed away Feb. 4 peacefully at her home surrounded by her family. Mrs. Goldman was born to Rose and Tony Patterson in Dayton, where she would later marry Robert Goldman and raise a family. They moved to Phoenix in 1983 and were delighted to have their

Ohio-Israel connections By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Someday, when Israelis ask, ‘Where’s the beef?’ the answer could be, ‘From Ohio.’ On Feb. 1, Zvi Herman, Israel’s minister of agricultural and science affairs for North America, visited cattle operations, livestock inspection and quarantine facilities in southwest Ohio, with the

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

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

One of the great actors of the last century said that to play Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice gave him joy; it was one of the highest points of his career. Shylock, the hated Jewish moneylender, demands the contractual payment of a pound of flesh from Antonio when

Shakespeare digs deep in his rhetorical toolbox to construct the perfect anti-hero By Miriamne Krummel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The Theatre Department at Wright State University is staging William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (circa 1596) this month. Should this production be a topic of discussion for Dayton’s

By Joseph A. Lieberman, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer I first heard the term ghetto in a Jewish context back in the ‘60s, in a novel about the Warsaw Ghetto. For some reason, it never occurred to me that its origin was Italian, and more specifically, Venetian. I shouldn’t

By Rabbi Bernard Barsky, Beth Abraham Synagogue, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which is to be performed at Wright State University this month, has always carried the stigma of antisemitism. Its portrayal of the vengeful and avaricious Jewish moneylender Shylock belongs at first glance

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer There was hardly a place to stand when the funeral service for Ilya Golub began on Dec. 25 in the chapel at Beth Jacob Cemetery. Members of the Russian-Jewish community, friends, business associates and neighbors came to remember the hard working, gregarious Golub,