20th Anniversary of Soviet Jewish immigration, October 2009   Svetlana and Moisey Shapochnik (L) were among 125 guests to join Joe and Elaine Bettman (R) at a picnic in Englewood Reserve Park to celebrate 20 years since Dayton’s Jewish Federation began resettling 80 Soviet Jews in the Miami Valley over

Partnership with Budapest By Irvin Moscowitz October 2009 Imagine growing up in a society where religion is not important. And then imagine living where you knew that half of the Jewish population of your country had been murdered during the Holocaust. And then imagine that your country had emerged from

By Samuel Heider, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer September 2009 My name is Samuel Heider. I was born in Poland in a small village by the name of Biljkow, 70 kilometers from Warsaw. I was the son of very religious Jewish farmers. My father, oleh hashalom, was a gerer

  Susan and Dr. Martin Schear in the women’s changing room of the Miami Valley Mikvah. The Schears have personally overseen the building and decorating of the ritual bath facility. They, along with Brenda and Allan Rinzler, are the lead donors to the mikvah.   Dedication, open house scheduled for

Local tech firm and Israeli company partner Venture a result of city/county trade mission. Reverse mission to Dayton in September, trade office in Haifa by end of ’09 in works.   By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Aug. 21, 2009 Last summer, Israeli technology wasn’t on Tony Manuel’s radar.

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer September 2009 Aug. 23 marked the first meeting of an exploration committee comprising eight members each from Beth Abraham Synagogue and Beth Jacob Synagogue to consider issues that would be involved if the two were to merge. Beth Abraham Pres. David Fuchsman According

Wright State service project   An area of the Jewish cemetery at Lotnicza Street in Wroclaw, Poland, cleared and restored by Wright State students   Wright State University service project helps reclaim neglected Jewish cemetery in Poland By Michelle Tedford, Special To The Observer They were there to ensure the

Tufts Hillel in Rwanda The orphans of Rwanda   Tufts University junior Kira Mikityanskaya with school children during recess at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village   By Kira Mikityanskaya, Special To The Observer As we bumped and rattled along an unpaved road full of giant potholes, I strained my neck for a

Scott Sternberg profile Style Observations by Vicki Bernie, The Dayton Jewish Observer Parents’ ‘impeccable taste’ an inspiration to Band of Outsiders founder Designer Scott Sternberg To Scott Sternberg, an aspiring writer heading out to Los Angeles in 1997, Band of Outsiders was simply a fine movie by director Jean-Luc Godard.

Religion, September 2009 By Rabbi Dr. Hillel Fox, Beth Jacob Synagogue A near-death accident can dramatically and drastically alter a person’s lifestyle and ordinary way of living. It can basically change his mental outlook and philosophy on life. As a consequence, small, petty and trivial matters that were once a