Marcia H. Alpert, age 79, a lifelong resident of Dayton, passed away Oct. 7. Mrs. Alpert was a realtor for over 40 years. She loved to spend time with her family creating memories, travel, try new local restaurants, and shopping. Mrs. Alpert was preceded in death by her parents, Morris

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and senior vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism, will provide the keynote address for the Dayton Unit NAACP’s 70th Anniversary Freedom Fund Awards. The program will be broadcast on WDTN Channel 2 at 11 a.m.,

Opinion By Marshall Weiss How do you respond when a dear friend spews hate? When someone who has championed you — who has held up your spirits in your darkest hours — publicly ignites vile judgments against people who are continually denigrated and othered? Where do you begin? This, I

Cincinnati’s Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center one of few museums in world to present Dimensions in Testimony exhibit By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In a dimly-lit gallery designed for about 10 people, the focus is on a virtual life-size moving and talking image of Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz, Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown Have you ever noticed that in the Torah, the Hebrew names that are familiar to us for the months are not mentioned? For that matter, most of the time, only numbers are used. Passover is celebrated on the 15th day of the

The Power of Stories, A New Series Jewish Family Education With Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer During high school, my husband lived for a short while with an Israeli family in Rehovot. The patriarch, Aharon Krumer, was the son of a rabbi and thus had a story for

With Bark Mitzvah Boy, The Dayton Jewish Observer Martin Gottlieb’s new book, Lincoln’s Northern Nemesis: The War Opposition and Exile of Ohio’s Clement Vallandigham, has just been published by McFarland & Co. It’s the story of Dayton’s representative to the U.S. Congress when the Civil War broke out. A retired

By Alan Zeitlin, JTA As NFL beat writers go, Jori Epstein is likely among the more unique: Start with being a woman, she doesn’t work on Shabbat, and she has penned a Holocaust survivor’s biography. The Dallas resident, who attended Jewish day schools and camps, is only 26, too. Epstein

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Martin Howard Beerman, age 68, was a much-beloved husband, father, son, brother, friend, and physician caring for many patients over his long career exclusively in the greater Sandusky area. His life was tragically cut short on Aug. 20 while flying his plane, which he loved to do. Dr. Beerman was