Ruth Aides, a beautiful, graceful, fashionable woman, died peacefully July 20 at the age of 100. Mrs. Aides was the beloved wife of Sam (deceased) and sister to Bea Cowan, Joe Friedman, Milton Friedman, Mose Friedman and Jayne Friedman. Mrs. Aides was the beloved aunt to many nieces and nephews.

Jesuit university inspired Chicago native to enter the rabbinate By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg was an undergraduate at Loyola University in Chicago, a priest who taught his early modern history class asked him what he was doing Jewishly. Up to that point, he says,

By Rabbi Levi Simon Chabad of Greater Dayton A story is told about Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), the founder of the Chasidic movement. One day as Rabbi Yisrael was walking through the forest with his students, he pointed out a leaf that had just blown off of a

Dayton Jewish Observer Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss received two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association at its annual conference. AJPA announced the winners of its 2013 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism in  Seattle on June 26. Weiss received the first-place award for Excellence in

A look at the Holy Book: A new series The Jewish Family Identity Forum with Candace R. Kwiatek The Dayton Jewish Observer In May 2012, U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski proposed eliminating the first four of the Ten Commandments when displayed on government property in response to an ACLU lawsuit

With Charlotte Golden, The Dayton Jewish Observer Rob Buerki, son of Bob and Leslie Buerki and grandson of the late Lester and Pearl Stein and Gail and Robert Buerki, graduated from the Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Rob will begin a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago.

‘The rewards just can’t be taken away from you’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer A few weeks before the death of Beth Abraham Synagogue member Adele Tilson at age 89, Rabbi Bernard Barsky visited her in Columbus. “Adele was very, very frail,” Barsky says. “I could hardly hear

Attorney says 20 percent of Nazi-plundered works still in circulation By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Observer Attorney Raymond J. Dowd of New York is angry. Specifically, he is angry about art stolen from Jews by the Nazis. In his talk, Masterpieces and Mystery, which he presented on May

Between idealism and realism FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman    433 pages    Harvard Univ. Press    $29.95 Book Review By Martin Gottlieb Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Strange thing about Franklin Roosevelt’s role in saving — or failing even to try to save — potential victims

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom Middletown Please allow me to let you in on some behind-the-scenes information. Simply put, at the beginning of the “season,” all of the rabbis involved with writing articles for The Dayton Jewish Observer are sent an email with the list of due dates