Josh Alpert, Dayton BBYO city director, has been nominated by the chapter’s teens for the David Bittker Unsung Hero Award, an award presented annually by the international BBYO organization to an outstanding adviser who demonstrates integrity, humility, dedication, and hard work. Josh not only serves the area’s Jewish teens; he’s

Muki Jankelowitz, Temple Israel’s tour guide on past trips to Israel, will lead a free, three-part Zoom series, Complicated History: Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Middle East, at 4 p.m., Sundays, Feb. 4, 11, and 18. A licensed Israel tour guide, Jankelowitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After he made

Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua, Temple Beth Or in Washington Township, and Temple Israel in Dayton were among more than 200 Jewish institutions across the United States to receive email bomb threats at the end of December. The three area temples received these “swatting” threats at 8:25 a.m. on Tuesday,

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Lorraine Fortner passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home on Jan. 2. Lorraine was born in Terre Haute, Ind. She graduated from Indiana State University, then from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She worked at LexisNexis for over 40

Jewish texts inspire the universal messages in Toronto native’s paintings. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Elyssa Wortzman had just arrived in Dayton in the fall of 2022 when she was invited to join the Women Strong Art Project. “This group of women artists was looking for a Jewish

Local updates connected to the Israel-Hamas war By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Past President Debby Goldenberg described this year’s JCC Chanukah celebration as particularly poignant. Federation staff and layleaders personally invited non-Jews to the program who have expressed their support for the Jewish community since

Temple Israel and Omega Baptist Church will join together for their annual pulpit exchange over MLK weekend. Pastor Joshua Ward will deliver the sermon at Temple Israel’s Shabbat service, 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 12. An Oneg reception will follow the service. Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz will deliver the sermon at Omega

By Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Chabad of Greater Dayton The year was 1939. Britain was closing the gates of their mandate in the Holy Land to the Jews just as the Nazi regime Britain had placated was about to conquer Eastern Europe and enslave and slaughter its Jews. German Jews had

Opinion By Martin Gottlieb I wish I could believe that the huge, angry reaction against the congressional testimony by the presidents of three elite universities will do something about the rising tide of antisemitism, but I don’t. The reaction seems to me a pathetic search for easy scapegoats. We can’t