The Power of Stories series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer Yakov joined a local Minchah (afternoon) service and sat a few rows behind a father and his four kids. The man in front of them drummed his fingers on the bench. The kids fidgeted.

Julie and Dr. Robert Bloom participated in their third Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Annual Israel Bike Mission, an intensive six-day bicycle ride through Israel from Eilat to Jerusalem, Nov. 11 to 17. Along the way, they cycled near the Egyptian border on a private military road and visited

By Steve Markman I think each veteran chose military service for a different reason. For some it was patriotism, for some to learn a skill, and some just needed a job. Going back earlier, some of us were drafted. But each of us gained something from that experience, along with

By Ron Kampeas, JTA In its closing session, Ohio’s legislature passed a law imposing penalties of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine for “zoombombing” religious services, a practice that antisemites have used to intimidate Jews. The law, Increasing Penalties for Disturbing a Religious Service, passed unanimously

Omega Baptist Church and Temple Israel will host their annual MLK Weekend pulpit exchange Jan. 13 and 15. The Rev. Joshua D. Ward will deliver the sermon at Temple Israel’s Shabbat service at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 13. Temple Israel is located at 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz

Look for Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.   To read the complete January 2023 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

Susan Nicole (Jacobs) Davis, age 50, of Dayton, passed away Dec. 13. Susan is survived by her beloved husband, Rich Davis; sons, Jake and Joey Davis; mother, Rachel Jacobs; brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Bradley Jacobs and Dr. Cassandra Milling Jacobs; sister and brother-in-law, Julie and Dr. Adam Waldman; and her

American Jewish Committee: ‘This type of incendiary language makes Jews less safe’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Ten minutes into his Sunday, Nov. 27 morning sermon at Anchor Baptist Church in Riverside, the congregation’s pastor, Mike Elliott, told churchgoers, “The Jews hate us. You do know that, right?

‘Evolving with the times,’ K-6 Jewish day school thrives with project-based learning By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When Hillel Academy opened as Dayton’s first Jewish day school in September 1961 — with just a kindergarten — the little fanfare it garnered was in Dayton’s daily papers. Nothing about

Oxford Police Department: ‘No religious bias involved’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Three Miami University students who turned themselves in six days after vandalizing Hillel at Miami’s sukkah had their felony charges dropped down and were convicted of criminal damages, a second-degree misdemeanor, in Butler County Court on