At the outset of Katherine Ellison’s career in journalism 30 years ago, she accidentally libeled someone as guilty of planning a murder even though the woman wasn’t charged with a crime in that murder trial. The woman ended up suing Ellison and her newspaper for $11 million. Years later, as

Considering Creation Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek Commonly referred to as the “king of beasts,”the lion owes its royal nickname in part to a prominent crown-like mane, but even more to its status as an apex predator, one of a select few at the top of the

Recipe and Photos by Joe Baur, The Nosher So you’ve gotten through the Seder meals and are looking for something easy and, dare I say, tasty to eat during Passover week? Look no further than chremslach (chremsl in the singular), better known as matzah meal pancakes, a lesser-known delicacy of

The Greater Dayton Yom Hashoah Remembrance will be livestreamed at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 11. This year’s program will honor the nine known area Holocaust survivors along with student winners of the annual Max May and Lydia May Memorial Holocaust Art and Writing Contest. The observance is sponsored by the

The parking lot of the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education at 525 Versailles Dr. in Centerville will be the location for the Community Yom Ha’Atzmaut Celebration, 1-3 p.m., Sunday, April 18. Entertainment for this year’s drive-in Israel Independence Day program will include musicians Marc Rossio and Grant Halasz

Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.     To read the complete April 2021 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

Passover begins at sunset, Saturday, March 27 — one year and two weeks after Covid cases began to take hold in the United States. At the time, area Jewish congregations scrambled to provide virtual Passover programming, Seders, and to-go Seder meals. This year’s offerings come with the hope for Covid-free

Just in time for Passover, kosher cooking maven/author Paula Shoyer’s Instant Pot Kosher Cookbook is now in print from Sterling Epicure. With 46 kosher-for-Passover recipes alone, from soups and salads to appetizers, sides to main courses and desserts — a number of which are vegetarian, vegan and gluten free —

By Rabbi Elchonon Chaikin, Chabad of Greater Dayton It was one year ago, on March 1, 2020, that my wife, Mussie, and I landed back in Dayton with a group of nine Jewish teens from the annual International CTeen Shabbaton. It was an incredible weekend, full of Jewish pride, learning

In an email Feb. 16, Beth Abraham Synagogue President Michael Freed and Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg informed the congregation that the rabbi’s employment with the synagogue will conclude with the end of his contract, June 30. “It is with great regret that we write today to inform the congregation that we