By Ari L. Noonan, Jewish Journal Simon Wiesenthal — history’s most successful pursuer of Nazis, who brought almost 1,100 criminals to justice — lives again in playwright and actor Tom Dugan’s talented hands. Dugan has been performing his one-person play, Wiesenthal, around the world since 2009. And in 2021, he

By Kylie Ora Lobell, jewishjournal.com There have been plenty of books written about Zionism and its early founders and builders, like Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Golda Meir and Louis D. Brandeis. While many of these works are compelling and help readers learn more about the history of the Jewish state,

Judaism’s Worldview Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer Salonika, Greece, 1936. The people in Nico’s Jewish neighborhood called the little blond-haired blue-eyed boy Chioni, Greek for snow, because he never lied. He adored his grandfather, who once warned him about lies. “Sometimes, if you

By Sam Fisher, cincyjewfolk.com With an overflow crowd of more than 250 people packed into a Cincinnati City Council public forum on Feb. 14, Mayor Aftab Pureval said he did not believe the city should take up the cease-fire resolution many in attendance were calling for. A standing-room crowd spilled

A crunchy, rolled treat from Greek and Turkish Jewish tradition. By Vered Guttman, The Nosher Jews around the Diaspora always let their imagination soar when it came to Purim revenge-food. Greek and Turkish Jews adapted the Middle Eastern sweet phyllo “cigars” and named them after Haman’s fingers. In this sweet

Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site!     To read the complete March 2024 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

Helen Cohen, age 84, of Lake Mary, Fla., passed away on Jan. 29. Helen was born in New York, Feb. 22, 1939, the first child of Dr. Harry and Rosalie Einhorn. Helen grew up in Dayton and graduated from Fairview High School, later attending Indiana University. She had several jobs

The first biblical epic’s Jewish connections go surprisingly beyond the obvious By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In the early 1980s, a group of amateur archaeologists discovered the remains of the City of Rameses buried beneath dunes of sand. Over a period of 30 years, with significant fundraising and

By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA When I asked Rabbi Diana Fersko why she decided to add to the growing list of recent books written about antisemitism, she referred to Passover. On the holiday, Jews tell and retell the familiar story of the Exodus, she explained, and often add to it. The

Unanimously approved wording expresses sympathy, not blame, in Israel-Hamas war. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer The Dayton City Commission unanimously passed a resolution Dec. 20 on the “current conflict in the Middle East” that “urgently calls for a cease-fire with the release of all civilians being illegally held