Religion, June 2010 By Rabbi Samuel Fox, Rabbi Emeritus, Beth Jacob Congregation Our rabbis teach us that when one intends to do a mitzvah, a commandment or good deed, he should do it without delay.  They have a beautiful saying that makes this point, “Mitzvah haba liyadcha al tachmitsena.” A

Orville’s Aviators   Arthur L. Welsh on a Wright Model B, 1911 By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer, June 2010 Through sheer persistence, Arthur L. Welsh persuaded the Wright brothers to give him a job with the exhibition division of the Wright Company in 1910. Born in Kiev in

The Ten Commandments: A series Jewish Family Identity Forum By Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer, June 2010 It has been a season of simchas. Among our extended family and friends have been numerous weddings and graduations, two birthdays, a military commission ceremony, a Bat Mitzvah, a brit, and

Haifa office opens By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 On April 16, the city of Dayton announced that Rafael Advance Defense Systems of Haifa, Israel will license the manufacture of its boron carbide ballistic body armor plates to B4C, a Dayton-based developer and maker of composite materials.

Gluzman recital, May 2010   Vadim Gluzman   By Masada Siegel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 Vadim Gluzman says he became a musician partly out of jealousy. “My father plays clarinet and is a conductor and my mom is a musicologist,” he says. “My parents were always

Zwellings depart Dayton, May 2010 By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 Deva and Josh Zwelling Josh and Deva Zwelling first met in Jerusalem, in a square overlooking the Western Wall plaza. Josh was two years out of high school and Deva just one year

Remembering Oscar Boonshoft, May 2010 The Dayton philanthropist approached giving as investments in community By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 Oscar Boonshoft at the dedication of the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education in Centerville, Nov. 23, 2003   The first time Peter Wells met Oscar

Medical exchange May 2010 By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 Western Galilee Hospital Dir. of Radiology Dr. Norman Loberant (Center) with Wright State medical students Nikunj Bhatt (L) and Linden Karas Even as a first-year student at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Cleveland native

JMA R2R 2010 By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer May 2010 Incoming JMA Pres. Ron Wynne Last year, when Daytonian Ron Wynne called the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to inform its staff that the Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance was planning to donate between $60-70,000 to the new Skokie-based

Religion May 2010 By Rabbi Nochum Mangel, Chabad of Greater Dayton Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, May 2010 Rabbi Nochum Mangel Near the end of March, Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan, a 31-year-old dentist, graduated as an officer at Fort Sam Houston after the U.S. Army made an exemption to