Perlman and Johnson Flutist Ariella Perlman, daughter of violinist Itzhak Perlman, and her husband, Robert Johnson, new principal horn player with the Dayton Philharmonic (shown here in Oakwood on June 21), will move to Dayton in August By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Only a week after their wedding,

Kroger expands kosher   Part of the more than 48 feet of dry kosher groceries available at the new Kroger Fresh Fare on Stroop Road By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer The opening of Kroger’s upscale Fresh Fare market at 530 E. Stroop Road in Kettering on July 30

Berlin 2009 Gertrude Kahn at Berlin’s Kindertransport monument. Kahn was rescued from the Holocaust at age 14 through the Kindertransport program. By Robert B. Kahn, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer When Gertrude and I were seated in our plane on the way to Berlin, we wondered whether we made

Honor flight (L to R) Gil Unger, Oscar Soifer, Irv Zipperstein, Bert Lieberman, and Ray Furst, shown here at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C., were among 44 World War II veterans from the Miami Valley to take part in Honor Flight on June 20 By Renate Frydman, Special

Tarantino movie Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds By Simcha Weinstein, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Alternative history is a genre with a long pedigree, especially in the realm of science fiction. After all, who can resist wondering, “What if…?” The epic saga of the Second World War,

Bar/Bat Mitzvah 2009 By Rabbi Judy Chessin, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer “There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly

Religion, August 2009 By Rabbi Levi Simon, Chabad of Greater Dayton On July 30, corresponding to the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, is a special day known as Tisha B’Av. It is the culmination of a three-week period of mourning, beginning with the fast of the 17th of

By Shel Bassel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The recitation of the Kaddish by mourners has come to be perhaps the single most important reason found by many to attend shul. Oddly, most of those people don’t know why the Kaddish is so important nor what it means. The

Style Observations, August 2009 Selections from Wendy Ritter’s Michael Kors collection on exhibit at The Kent State University Museum through Nov. 2 By Vicki Bernie, The Dayton Jewish Observer Vicki Bernie Michael Kors called her “the last warrior.” To most people, the late Wendy Zuckerwise Ritter was the epitome of

The history of Dayton’s Jewish cemeteries