By Sophie Panzer, Jewish Exponent While their parents may have relied on tape recorders and CDs for their own B’nai Mitzvah preparations, students today learning to chant Torah can turn to YouTube. “There are lots of cantors who have produced high-quality recordings on YouTube,” said Ben Rotenberg, education director at

By Rabbi Tamara Cohen, Moving Traditions Today is your Bat/Bar/B’nai/B-Mitzvah and it is a day of celebration. It is not the day you and your family envisioned and planned for. And we are so sorry because that’s what we all wanted it to be. But your Torah will be no

By Rachel Ringler, The Nosher Jimmy’s Chicken Shack was a food and jazz hub on St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem in the 1940s. Malcolm X worked there. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker Jr. washed dishes there. At that same address you can still find food and jazz; but the name and

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Arnold “Hank” Adler II, age 77 of Centerville, passed away June 18. Mr. Adler is survived by his wife, Helene of 51 years; daughter, Sharon; son, David (Jennifer); five grandchildren; one great-grandson; brother, Paul (Debbie Isroff); sister, Constance Levi; many nieces, nephews and friends. Interment was at David’s Cemetery. Memorial

What we can do. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Now in his 14th year as president of the Dayton Unit NAACP, Derrick L. Foward announced June 8 the civil rights organization’s eight-point proposal for Montgomery County police departments and the sheriff’s office, “to build and sustain safety, employment

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With summer approaching, some area Jewish congregations have begun to open for in-person services or are planning to, while others continue with virtual programming only. The first to open for in-person services were Chabad of Greater Dayton in Oakwood and Temple Sholom in

By Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin, Chabad of Greater Dayton Moses Maimonides practiced medicine on the highest levels. He would write 10 medical treatises, become the court physician for Sultan Saladin in Cairo, and perhaps briefly to King Richard the Lion-Hearted as well. Maimonides is more famous for three major works, each

A Bisel Kisel with Masha Kisel, The Dayton Jewish Observer I was 7 years old on April 26, 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant exploded in the city of Pripyat, about 60 miles from Kiev, where I lived. It was beautifully sunny and I was enjoying my

With Scott Halasz, The Dayton Jewish Observer Mike Emoff is doing his part to help fight the coronavirus. He recently shifted the focus of his longtime promotional product business, Shumsky Enterprises, to provide personal protective equipment for those in need. “At the onset of Covid-19, we realized we had an