Twins Eli and Ethan Greenberg, seniors on Centerville High School’s varsity boys basketball team, both signed on Nov. 13 to play basketball at Division 1 schools on full athletic scholarships. Eli will play at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., a member of the Northeast Conference. Ethan will play at

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Dec. 20 that the University of Cincinnati had agreed to resolve a complaint that the school had failed to follow its obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. An investigation by the department’s Office for Civil Rights reviewed approximately two

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Frieda Borkan Gottesman Blum died peacefully on Dec. 14 at Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton, at age 94. She was born in Newark, N.J. on Jan. 30, 1930, and was the daughter of Maurice “Murray”and Helen Borkan. She was preceded in death by all five siblings, husbands Bernard Gottesman and Arnold

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With two Wright State University uniformed security officers standing visibly at the entrance of the Student Union’s Apollo Room, about 50 students attended the Palestine Diaspora Movement’s Resistance 101 Community Teach-In, Nov. 20, hosted by the university’s Muslim Student Association. The Palestine Diaspora

Members vote for synagogue to become Modern Orthodox and to affiliate with Orthodox Union By Marshall Weiss, The Observer As of Nov. 10, Beth Jacob Congregation now identifies as a Modern Orthodox synagogue, with separate seating for men and women on either side of a mechitzah (physical divider). That was

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Boston-based attorney Doug Hauer says he and his spouse of 30 years, Jack, were “100-percent destroyed” when Jack’s family in Israel called them at 4 in the morning, Oct. 7, 2023. “His entire family is in Israel,” says Doug, who was born and raised in

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Among the extinct department stores of Manhattan, a mystique surrounds the names of a few: Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor, Henri Bendel. Bonwit Teller, established in 1895, went bankrupt in 2000. It closed that year. Lord & Taylor filed for bankruptcy in 2020. When it

Sacred Speech Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer On her 80th birthday, a feisty Jewish woman makes out her last will and testament, then visits her rabbi to discuss two final wishes. The first is that she be cremated. Knowing that argument is useless,

Linda Ohlmann Kahn and Lori Ohlmann sold the 75-year-old Ohlmann Group marketing/communications agency in October to David Bowman and Jenny Michael, who are now its co-CEOs. Linda and Lori stay on as members of the Ohlmann Group board: Linda as board chair and vice president of media services, Lori as