The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center will host the panel, Black-Jewish Reconciliation: (Re)Building the Bridge, 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council. Panelists will be Wilberforce University Assoc. Prof. of History Godfrey Vincent and documentary filmmaker Avi Dresner, son of Civil Rights champion Rabbi

Shoham Cohen, who survived the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova massacre, will be the guest speaker for Chabad’s Community Shabbat Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6. For hours, Cohen was chased by terrorists and hid at the festival site. The cost is $30 adult, $10 child. Chabad is located at 2001

**Postponed due to weather** *To be rescheduled at a later date*   Jake Newsome, founder and president of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, will be the guest speaker for University of Dayton’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day program, 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the Kennedy Union Boll Theater. A scholar

Temple Beth Or will culminate the yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary and Rabbi Judy Chessin’s tenure with The Ruby Ball, 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31 at Moraine Country Club, 4075 Southern Blvd., Kettering. Reservations are available at templebethor.com. Tickets start at $75 per person. To read the complete January

Synagogue consultant Bob Leventhal, who had served as director of leadership with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and led the team that created USCJ’s Sulam Leadership Curriculum, died Dec. 6 at the Medical University of South Carolina from injuries he sustained when he was struck by a vehicle the

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer From the moment in August when Jewish Community Relations Council Director Jeff Blumer got the Jewish Federation’s go-ahead to raise funds for the Holon-based family of Bar Kuperstein, Jeff hoped he might present the check to Bar himself. Bar, 22, was then thought

‘Zionism is anti-American’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Sammy Caruso began his speech leading the chant, “Free Palestine.” He concluded with another chant, directed at the U.S. government: “Not another nickel, not another dime. No more money for Israel’s crimes.” In between, the Oakwood resident and Miami University

CEO — son of Holocaust survivors and a member of Dallas, Texas Jewish community — stands behind former editor’s decision to run columns By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Isaac Weintraub has lived in Beavercreek for a decade. While furloughed from his work as an electrical engineer at Wright-Patterson

Felix Weil, who at the age of 11 in 1939 was rescued from Nazi Germany with the Kindertransport program, died Oct. 14. He was 97. Born in Frankfurt, Weil lived in England with a host family for the duration of the war in Europe. After his arrival in London, he

Through Dec. 31, Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is in the midst of what Hadassah Dayton Membership VP Louise Tincher calls an unprecedented membership drive. Chapters across the country are reaching out to Jews who aren’t affiliated with the Jewish community and to non-Jewish supporters of Israel. “Historically,