Dr. Laz Shabbaton at Chabad Special needs music teacher, race relations specialist, guest for Chabad Shabbaton By Elliot Resnick, The Jewish Press (January 2010 Dayton Jewish Observer) Dr. David Lazerson brings music to children with severe disabilities at The Quest Center in Broward County, Fla. For nine years, Dr. David

By Joan Friedman, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, January 2010 According to the Talmud, Rav Yehuda taught that 40 days before a male child is conceived, a voice from heaven announces whose daughter he is going to marry; therefore, it is literally a match made in heaven. In Yiddish,

Ready, set, personalize Special touches bring even more meaning to the big day By Toby Klein Greenwald, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, January 2010 Every family wants the wedding of their child or sibling to be memorable, a wedding that relatives and friends will talk about for years to

TBO makeover dedication   Temple Beth Or with its new social hall (L) and facade   By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer, March 2009 With its expansion, new facade and classroom renovations completed on target in December, Temple Beth Or in Washington Township is ready to open its doors

Folksbiene The oldest, only surviving professional Yiddish theatre company in the U.S., the Folksbiene brings its traveling show to Dayton By Masada Siegel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, March 2010 Where would American humor be without Yiddish, with words such as meshugah and shlemiel peppering dialogue in films and

Aluminum Show With acrobatics, dance and puppetry, Israel’s Aluminum Show at Victoria for two weeks in March       By Masada Siegel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, February 2010 Sometimes inspiration falls right at your feet. Just ask Ilan Azriel, creator of The Aluminum Show. After a successful

Religion, March 2010 By Rabbi Janice Garfunkel, Temple Sholom, Springfield, March 2010 Rabbi Janice Garfunkel What does Judaism teach us about anger? Woody Allen’s movies famously captured the stereotype of loud, boisterous Jewish families who expressed all their voluble emotions — easy to yell, easy to hug. He contrasted this

Yom Hashoah 2010 Rabbi Abie Ingber at a Darfuri refugee camp in Chad Let’s stop history from repeating itself is the theme of this year’s Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Observance: A Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, on Sunday, April 11 at 7 p.m. at Temple Israel,

Passover 2010 The season of our freedom By Rabbi Bernard Barsky, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Rabbi Barnard Barsky The Passover of my youth is well-documented in a home movie my father made in 1949 when I was 4 years old. The entire extended family is gathered at Aunt

2010 Film Festival: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Director to attend screening at The Greene Review by Ron Kaplan, New Jersey Jewish News Gertrude Berg wrote more than 12,000 scripts during her career Before there was Lucille Ball, before there was Oprah, Gertrude Berg was the foremost female media personality in America.