The JCC Film Fest will celebrate the recent restoration of a movie house in Miamisburg dating to 1919 when it presents its opening-night film, Once in a Lifetime, at the Historic Plaza Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5. One hour before the screening, the Film Fest will host

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The marvelously claustrophobic and deeply damning Israeli courtroom drama Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem actually consists of three trials. Seeking a divorce after some 30 years, Viviane aims to cast her husband Elisha as the defendant. However, the

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Exceptionally intelligent and resourceful, and supported by a loving middle-class family, the young protagonist of A Borrowed Identity has a wide-open future. He does have one handicap, though, that will block his ascent into the upper echelons of Israeli

Film Review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The recent history between Jews and African-Americans, from the Crown Heights riot of 1991 through the dustup between Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders last summer, is strewn with misunderstandings. One has to go back half a century to

By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer In a year of harsh national immigration talk and disrespect for various races and religions, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra will celebrate a virtuoso violinist from the former Soviet Union — and will celebrate the city’s small Jewish community — when Yevgeny

By Rabbi Judy Chessin, Temple Beth Or Our feet “prayed” as 20 Jews from Dayton marched across the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. This was just one of many stops on our Etgar 36 Civil Rights Journey in February, on which Dayton high school students participated with me, Temple

With Rachel Haug Gilbert, The Dayton Jewish Observer The city of Centerville proclaimed Feb. 21 as Ira Segalewitz Day, in honor of his 80th birthday. The proclamation cited the Holocaust survivor’s contributions as a volunteer with Temple Beth Or, as a docent at the National Museum of the U.S. Air

By Danielle Berrin, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Two years after graduating from Harvard, Randi Zuckerberg received a job offer from her brother Mark — the founder of Facebook — to head up his company’s marketing. Today, she is an Internet entrepreneur, the founder of Zuckerberg Media, the author of

Jew in the Christian world Family education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer Jewish groups regularly meet to explore the Torah through traditional commentaries, archaeological and sociological information, historical writings, and modern interpretations. Unfamiliar with this methodology, many Christians express interest in biblical study accompanied by diverse —

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