Dr. Arthur Green, founding dean of the non-denominational rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston, will deliver two lectures as the keynote speaker for the 41st Annual Ryterband Symposium in Judaic Studies, Wednesday, Sept. 18 at the University of Dayton. Green will present Excavating Chasidic Texts at 4 p.m. in

Rabbi Judith Schindler, Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice at Queens University of Charlotte, N.C., will keynote Westminster Presbyterian Church’s second annual Westminster Lecture on Faith and Civic Life at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28. Her address, The Jewish View

The American Jewish Press Association announced in June that The Dayton Jewish Observer is the recipient of a first-place 2019 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. A feature story by Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss about the Gem City Market in the March 2018 Observer, Let all who

Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.     To read the complete September 2019 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.  

Franklin T. Cohn, age 85 of Dayton, passed away July 23. Mr. Cohn was a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps and was instrumental in the building of the Korean War Veterans Memorial. He was a very accomplished athlete in many sports and was still competing. He was

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Over Aug. 4 and 5, the Tipp City Police Department received three reports of hate vandalism — including three swastikas — spray-painted on sidewalks along Plum Street and on a CSX Corp. railroad electric box. According to police reports, a swastika with a circle around

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When Dayton’s Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz was invited to deliver a prayer at Sunday night’s vigil on East Fifth Street in Dayton’s Oregon District — the site where nine people were gunned down earlier that day — she already knew where to find words

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Among its current members, no one is sure exactly when the Yellow Springs Havurah was born. New Yorker Len Kramer moved to Yellow Springs in 1968 after he graduated college and took an engineering job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. “Maybe 10 years

A Bisel Kisel Masha Kisel, The Dayton Jewish Observer At a recent Jewish Film Fest screening in Dayton, I picked up a pamphlet listing classic Jewish authors. There were notable omissions of many Eastern European names, which I hope to remedy by telling you about Isaac Babel, a Russian-speaking Jewish

With Scott Halasz, The Dayton Jewish Observer Ben Pierce graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business with a dual major in finance and honors accounting. At Ohio State, he won a PaceSetters Award for being among the top business school students, was a teaching