By Miriam Karp, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Like many of us, Ava Kuperman thought human trafficking only referred to sex trafficking, and just to people far away. An English class assignment changed that. “We read about an Egyptian girl. When she was about my age, her family sold her,”

One researcher explains how to protect our daughters during Bat Mitzvah By Dr. Beth Cooper Benjamin ejewishphilanthropy.com Today, outside of Orthodoxy, girls and boys participate in identical B’nai Mitzvah rituals celebrated with equal enthusiasm by families and communities. Given that ritual Bar Mitzvah has existed since the Middle Ages while

Mitzvah projects bring to life timeless Jewish values By Michelle Tedford, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer By carefully choosing the blue glass of his artwork, Tobias Cebulash captured the white swirl of a storm cloud. In the brown, the wood grain of a ship’s hull. And in the navy