Part Three Conclusion: Black/Jewish relations from the Dayton riots through desegregation By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Thursday, Sept. 2, 1976 marked day one of Dayton Public Schools’ implementation of its court-ordered desegregation plan to achieve racial balance. According to an Associated Press story, the first day of busing students

Dayton-based CommuterAds — which has contracts with 13 public transportation authorities across the United States — is now in talks to bring its messaging technologies to Israel’s public transportation sector, thanks to Hadas Bar-Or, trade rep for the Dayton-Israel Regional Trade Alliance. “Andy Schwartz was telling us about this amazing

Uri Bar-Joseph reveals how the Yom Kippur War could have been lost without the actions of one high-ranking Egyptian official By Francine Wolfisz, Jewish News, London As Ashraf Marwan’s body lay lifeless outside his central London flat, speculation arose that the 63-year-old Egyptian businessman had been the victim of a tragic

By Joshua Runyan, Washington Jewish Week It’s been 13 years since Rabbi Eric Yoffie, then the president of the Union of Reform Judaism, pointed to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as a source of inspiration for his own movement’s synagogues and congregants. “It is hard for me to say this, but I will

By Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week Sixteen years ago, a few days before the verdict was announced in the British case in which Jewish studies professor Deborah Lipstadt stood accused of defaming Holocaust denier David Irving, she told me that though her life “had been disrupted…for several years, I feel I

An interview with new Federation President David Pierce By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer For attorney David Pierce, a little good timing goes a long way. A month after his installation as president of the Jewish Federation in August, the Federation received revenue of $957,672 from the HUD-approved sale

Opinion By Michael Berenbaum No one compares to Adolf Hitler. He was incomparably evil. Nothing in American politics compares to Nazism. Nothing, not now — and hopefully never! And yet, I am grateful to Donald Trump because he has made my job of explaining the rise of Nazism and political

By Rabbi Tina Sobo, Temple Israel In my pre-rabbi life, I was a competitive swimmer. As I entered Hebrew Union College for rabbinical school, I was coming off 18 years of a life that involved a lot of chlorine. Unlike many of my soon-to-be colleagues, my resumé was not speckled with

By Jennifer Stempel, JTA       Cuban-Style ArrozCon Pollo Chicken and rice, arroz con pollo is a dish for which every Latin country has its own unique spin. Some use beer versus wine, or crushed annatto rather than saffron. It’s affordable, it’s rich with flavor, and it’s visually gratifying. And

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