BA mezuzah project By Jennie Szink, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer 12-year-old Ben Green and his mother, Cheryl Levine, design mosaic art for Beth Abraham’s mezuzah project Fourth-grader Sam Green said he was aware of the ethical and religious meaning behind the mezuzah, but since he passes one several

The Hennings By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Stephanie and Doug Henning At a work training seminar in March 2005, juvenile probation officer Stephanie Blum found herself partnered with a substance abuse counselor (now fellow probation officer) named Doug Henning. The two worked for different agencies

  By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer When Jill Abromowitz and Brent Gutmann marry in June at the Schuster Center, it will be the result of a romance spanning three continents, thousands of miles, and multiple time zones. Still, the two met in a homey way.

Religion January 09 By Rabbi Bernard Barsky, Beth Abraham Synagogue Despite all the Internet blather during the recent presidential campaign that Jews had reason to fear Barack Obama — because he was a secret Muslim, educated in a madrassa, a covert enemy of Israel and a friend of terrorists —

Zwick profile   Director Edward Zwick (R) with Daniel Craig and Alexa Davalos on the set of Defiance   By Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer In the gripping World War II drama Defiance, the Jews fight back. That’s all you need to know about Edward Zwick’s saga

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin of Chabad of Greater Dayton remembers the Holtzbergs at Chabad’s memorial program for the victims of terror in Mumbai A standing-room crowd gathered at Chabad of Greater Dayton in Oakwood on the evening of Dec. 2 in memory of the

By Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer A post-mortem from the heroes who helped bring one of the nation’s most dangerous hate groups down.   FBI informant Dave Hall infiltrated the Aryan Nations from 1997-1999   Of all the hate groups on its radar in the 1990s, the federal government

      By Rabbi Bernard Barsky, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer No matter who sits in the White House, the abortion issue will continue to trouble American politics for the foreseeable future. Not only is there concern about the make-up of the Supreme Court under a new president;

By Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer On Dec. 15, eighth-graders at Hillel Academy watched as their classmate Sam Guggenheimer delivered a speech to 65 new U.S. citizens and their friends and families during a naturalization ceremony at the Federal Building in downtown Dayton. “Always remember that by coming to

The Dayton Peace Accords: ten years later, November 2005 By Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer   Ten years ago, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin brought Dayton Peace Accords figures to Temple Israel On Sunday, Nov. 5, 1995, the Dayton Jewish community played an unexpected role in the