Robert M. Brackman, age 84 of Dayton, passed away May 17 at Good Samaritan Hospital after a lengthy bout with pneumonia and COPD. Born in Xenia to the late Celia and Bernard Brackman, Mr. Brackman is survived by Gloria, his devoted wife of 59 years, daughter Judith Martin of Dayton,

  Learning to rest — and listen — at Temple Beth Or Men’s Retreat Photos and Story By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer One by one, each man has expressed what he hopes to receive over the next 48 hours, and then places a slow-burning candle on a low

By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Hardly lost in a film of drama, love and a mostly Jewish football (soccer) team that beat a German team — despite the harshest of consequences — is the Nazi elimination of more than 7,000 Macedonian Jews during World War II.

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Depending on your perspective and politics, Moriah Films’ adaptation of The Prime Ministers is a pride-inducing tour of the first three decades of Israel’s existence or a stunningly blinkered view of ancient events That’s the nature of oral history:

By Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg, Beth Abraham Synagogue, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer A rebbe and his devoted disciple were on a journey. Night was falling as they passed a forest, so they had to stop, make camp, and set up a tent for the night. After they got their

Producers of documentary about Ethiopian aliyah consider next steps By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Even though the locally-produced documentary Take Us Home is a little past its film circuit prime, it continues to have a shelf life as producer and director Aileen LeBlanc and Dayton’s Levin

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In 1991, Israel brought 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish state in 36 hours on 34 airplanes. One of the key architects of this covert military operation — Operation Solomon — was the Jewish Agency For Israel’s Micha Feldmann. Now the director of

Nazi manipulation of legal system focus of exhibit By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Nazi Germany’s plan to eliminate the Jews was helped considerably when in 1933 Hitler gained power and moved quickly to refuse access to courts for all Jewish judges, public prosecutors and lawyers. After

With Rachel Haug Gilbert, The Dayton Jewish Observer Ray Must’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Dayton Visual Arts Center. The retrospective, Oil & Water: Raymond Must and Ernest Koerlin, runs May 9-June 21 and was selected from 117 applications through DVAC’s call for exhibitions. Ray and Ernest taught

A look at the Holy Book series The Jewish Family Identity Forum with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer  Preparing the kitchen for Passover is a grueling process. Packing away the chametz (leaven). Polishing the silver. Cleaning the oven. And the list goes on. Rescuing me from some of