Four days before nine Israeli Arab high school students from the Galilee and their chaperone were to arrive Aug. 9 for two weeks in Dayton, their trip was postponed until next year. With heightened tensions and threats of retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah after Israel’s assassinations of top Hamas military

Renate Frydman, founder and curator of Prejudice & Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit, will lead a tour of the exhibit at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10 to commemorate its 25th anniversary on permanent display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The tour is presented by the JCC’s adult

Bill Trollinger, professor of history and religious studies at the University of Dayton, will present the address, Terrorizing Catholics, Jews, and Immigrants: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Dayton at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5 at UD’s Roger Glass Center for the Arts. The director of the university’s Core Integrated

By Rabbi Tina Sobo Temple Israel Teshuva, generally translated as repentance, is a concept we Jews draw a lot from during the High Holidays. Its root meaning is to return. Most would say that we are returning to God, to a more righteous path of action, etc., and that this

Meredith Moss Levinson surprised her brother, Israeli Judaica artist David Moss, when she attended the National Library of Israel’s ceremony in Jerusalem Aug. 6 announcing it had received the original Moss Haggadah illuminated manuscript from donors Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert Gottesman. In June, the Gottesmans purchased the Moss Haggadah

Judaism’s Worldview Series with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer A slave of the Hasmonean king, Alexander Yannai, killed a man and was brought to trial. Since the Torah required that even an ox accused of goring a person to death be testified against together with its master, the

Opinion By Martin Gottlieb What the leading Jewish lobby in Washington is doing in congressional elections raises some troubling questions. At what point does standing up for a group’s beliefs become simple bullying? Just how big a role should money play in our elections? Isn’t something wrong when millions of

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Karyl Cohn (née Stein), age 95, passed away peacefully on July 21 in Tucson, Ariz. Born in 1929, in Dayton, Karyl’s life was a testament to her passion for music and her enduring love for her family. Karyl’s musical journey began at the tender age of 8 with piano lessons,

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In a talk at Temple Israel nearly 30 years ago, celebrated local artist Ray Must made a point that was important to him: “I am a Jew who is an artist, not a ‘Jewish artist.’ My work is directed to wider audiences and