By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz, Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown Have you ever looked closely at the month of February? What does it have to offer? It is the shortest month of the year with fewer than 30 days. It is usually cold and dark, and frequently depressing. It is the middle

The Bible: Wisdom Literature Jewish Family Education With Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer I met my future husband through a kipah-clad classmate at my Jesuit graduate school who mentioned a synagogue on a bus line. Don’t ask — it’s a long story filled with unexpected lucky coincidences. In

Beth Abraham Synagogue, Temple Beth Or, Temple Israel, and PJ Library will present Noah Aronson as their artist-in-residence over the weekend of Feb. 22-24 at all three congregations. An adjunct faculty member of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, the composer and performer is

When the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center opens at its new home — in Cincinnati’s Union Terminal on Sunday, Jan. 27 — Dayton’s survivor community will be well-represented. Following the 1 p.m. opening ceremony and ribbon cutting, survivor Renate Frydman — the Miami Valley’s longtime champion of

Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.     To read the complete February 2019 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

Ronald (Ron) Bressler died on Dec. 24 at Brookdale of Englewood with his devoted wife of 61 years, Irene Bressler, by his side. He is survived by his children, Dawn Bressler Kaye (Dr. Jack Kaye) of Annandale, Va., Kevin (Karen) Bressler of Dayton, and Andrew (Shellie) Bressler, of Washington, D.C.;

By Josefin Dolsten, JTA With the Women’s March only days away, local chapters and major progressive groups are continuing to distance themselves from the national leadership, which is scrambling to hold on to its big tent. Though the national organization was once seen as a beacon of hope for progressives following Donald

National Women’s March leaders’ tolerance for antisemitism overshadows local event Editor’s note: The Dayton Women’s March has been cancelled due to inclement weather hitting the Dayton area on Saturday. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Masha Kisel of Oakwood joined the first national Women’s March in Washington, D.C. in

An Interview With Moriel Rothman-Zecher By Marshall Weiss, The Observer It’s been a year of roller coaster highs and lows for Moriel Rothman-Zecher, who with his wife, Kayla, moved from Jerusalem to his childhood home — the hippie-centric village of Yellow Springs, Ohio — in November 2017. The Israeli-American’s first

By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Observer Women who are activists in Dayton’s interfaith community met their counterparts from Israel when the Jewish Federation hosted a delegation of 13 Israelis over four days in November as part of the Federation’s Partnership2Gether program. For almost a year before their arrival