Looking to spice up your kitchen? Click here to download the recipe featured at our Joint Annual Meeting on May 22, 2013. The following board members were officially intstalled at the 2013 JFGD Joint Annual Meeting on May 22, 2013: JFGD Board Member (1-year term ending in 2014): Bob Heuman

Chabad business ethics course Chabad’s Rabbi Nochum Mangel leads a Business Ethics Roundtable   By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Beginning this month, a course designed and taught by Chabad of Greater Dayton Director Rabbi Nochum Mangel will be available for use to more than 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch institutions around

Afro-Semitic Experience The Afro-Semitic Experience   By Scott Halasz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer With apologies to Jimi Hendrix, the Experience is alive and well. But this one isn’t about Purple Haze or a Foxy Lady. This is the Afro-Semitic Experience and it’s coming to Dayton as part of

Religion, December 08 By Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling, Temple Beth Shalom, Middletown Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling Once, when I visited a childhood friend of mine, I had the opportunity to talk at some length with her Orthodox husband. As we were returning from synagogue one morning, he turned and asked

Interview with Wendy Mogel Festival and Joffe Day of Jewish Learning present Skinned Knee author and psychologist Wendy Mogel on raising self-reliant children By Michelle Tedford, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Wendy Mogel Our children are over-scheduled, over-indulged, over-protected, anxious and irresponsible, says clinical psychologist Wendy Mogel. One solution

Modern Modiin The view from Rabbi David and Simone Sofian’s condominium overlooking Modiin  Modern Modiin a foothold for liberal Jewish practice in Israel By Rabbi David M. Sofian Have you heard of a place called Modiin? In Jewish tradition we know Modiin is where the Maccabean revolt broke out. Unfortunately,

‘Peace’ forum at UD By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Brochure distributed as part of Jerusalem Women Speak At a Dayton stop on the lecture tour, Jerusalem Women Speak, billed as “women working for a peaceful and just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” one panelist threw her support behind

Bernstein to close kosher grocery By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Steve Bernstein In 1997, Steve Bernstein decided to make over his restaurant, Uptown Deli, into a kosher grocery, in addition to his catering business, Bernstein’s Fine Catering. Eleven years later, he has seen his catering business go through

Bert Brant obituary By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Bertram Brant Bertram Brant, who served as the first director of Covenant House, from 1972 to 1982, died Oct. 17 at the age of 92. His career in Jewish communal service spanned 35 years. The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton

BA mezuzah project By Jennie Szink, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer 12-year-old Ben Green and his mother, Cheryl Levine, design mosaic art for Beth Abraham’s mezuzah project Fourth-grader Sam Green said he was aware of the ethical and religious meaning behind the mezuzah, but since he passes one several