Jewish Family Services and Rainbow Elder Care are co-sponsoring the screening of the documentary Dear Fredy for the Dayton LGBT Film Festival, at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14 at The Neon, 130 E. Fifth St., Dayton. An openly gay Jew, Fredy Hirsch set up a daycare center for Jewish

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer At its meeting on Jan. 20, the board of the Jewish Federation approved Jewish Family Services’ three-year strategic plan, which aims to meet newly-identified needs in the Dayton Jewish community. Specifics of the plan — which grew out of a community survey and

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Spurred by financial losses, Dayton’s Jewish Family Services will eliminate programs and services that duplicate those offered in the general community, to focus on projects JFS clients can receive nowhere else. This will mean closing its congregate meal site at Covenant Manor in