A look at the Holy Book: A new series The Jewish Family Identity Forum with Candace R. Kwiatek The Dayton Jewish Observer In May 2012, U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski proposed eliminating the first four of the Ten Commandments when displayed on government property in response to an ACLU lawsuit

With Charlotte Golden, The Dayton Jewish Observer Rob Buerki, son of Bob and Leslie Buerki and grandson of the late Lester and Pearl Stein and Gail and Robert Buerki, graduated from the Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Rob will begin a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago.

By Alisa Thomas, Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Children in grades K to six saw a new face this summer at the DJCC’s Camp Shalom and learned more about life in the Jewish state along the way. Shahaf Zur joined the camp staff as a shaliach (the Hebrew word for

The Jewish Internet with Mark Mietkiewicz   It may not be a famous Jewish food like challah, blintzes or latkes. Heck, it may not be even be the most famous Jewish food that starts with a “k” like kugel, kishka or kreplach. But thanks to an odd conjunction of one

  Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month in The Dayton Jewish Observer and at this site.

Margaret ‘Margie’ Shane, age 58 of Los Angeles, passed away after a lengthy illness, on July 12. Ms. Shane graduated from Harrison High School (’73) in Evansville, Ind. where she spent her entire childhood. She attended Miami University (Oxford) and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in advertising/communications.

‘The rewards just can’t be taken away from you’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer A few weeks before the death of Beth Abraham Synagogue member Adele Tilson at age 89, Rabbi Bernard Barsky visited her in Columbus. “Adele was very, very frail,” Barsky says. “I could hardly hear

Attorney says 20 percent of Nazi-plundered works still in circulation By Martha Moody Jacobs, Special To The Observer Attorney Raymond J. Dowd of New York is angry. Specifically, he is angry about art stolen from Jews by the Nazis. In his talk, Masterpieces and Mystery, which he presented on May

Between idealism and realism FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman    433 pages    Harvard Univ. Press    $29.95 Book Review By Martin Gottlieb Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Strange thing about Franklin Roosevelt’s role in saving — or failing even to try to save — potential victims

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom Middletown Please allow me to let you in on some behind-the-scenes information. Simply put, at the beginning of the “season,” all of the rabbis involved with writing articles for The Dayton Jewish Observer are sent an email with the list of due dates