Operation Promise Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer   “Being Ethiopian in Israel is not a picnic,” says Micha Feldmann. The man who oversaw the immigration of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel since the 1990s, Feldmann says that most Israelis keep their distance from Ethiopians. “In a

God and Katrina Rabbi David Burstein Education Director, Temple Beth Or God and Hurricane Katrina “The earth was null (tohu) and void (vohu), and there was darkness upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God hovered above the water (Gen. 1:2).” It is Sunday night — the

2006 United Jewish Campaign Opening Gala Naomi Pefferman Los Angeles Jewish Journal When Joshua Malina arrived at his first Los Angeles Jewish community event, a 2001 pro-Israel rally, he received an unpleasant surprise. The boyish 39-year-old actor — a regular on NBC’s White House drama The West Wing — had

Goldreich Michelle Tedford Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Gloria Goldreich’s elegant characters and storytelling have earned her readers around the country, as well as an invitation to this year’s Dayton Jewish Book Fair. She will speak on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel Academy. Admission is $10

New rabbi in Middletown Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Rabbi Kari Hofmaister’s path toward Judaism started in church. At 14, she got into a theological argument with her pastor. “He didn’t take it seriously,” she says. “In the process of confirmation it was a process of de-affirmation because I

Clayton mayoral race Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Jewish Federation: ‘This is antisemitism’ Following a Nov. 15 Dayton Daily News editorial lambasting Clayton mayoral candidate Joyce Deitering for her letter asking members of her church to support her because “it is the Catholic faith which you and I share

Peace Accords:10 years Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Leader of Bosnian Jewish community would like to establish links with Jews of Dayton By the morning of Nov. 16, several dignitaries from Bosnia and Herzegovinia had arrived in Dayton to take part in the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Dayton

Hillel class Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer At Hillel Academy, it’s 3:30 p.m. on a Thursday. In a classroom, empty desks are arranged in a semicircle. Black judges’ robes are wadded up in a chair. Students, laughing and talking, trample stalks of wheat into the carpet

Darfur project By Michelle Tedford The Dayton Jewish Observer People are dying, starving, marching away from their villages that were burned by their government. It is happening so far away — in the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa — that it is hard for many to connect with the

Wonderful Weddings Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Every wedding is different, but it’s the rare one that doesn’t involve some travail and controversy. When Sarah announced she was planning to marry her Swedish Lutheran boyfriend in Stockholm, her father, Temple Israel member Aaron Burke, said that