By Rachel Haug Gilbert, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Daytonian Hilary Zappin, the DJCC’s community outreach coordinator, has traveled extensively as a production assistant with acts such as Garth Brooks, Aerosmith, and Jimmy Buffet. With PC Goenner Talent Agency, she’s placed talent in regional and national commercials and in

By Jennie Szink, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer When Ira Segalewitz attended a Yiddish conference last spring, he didn’t expect to be enveloped by songs about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed more than 145 workers in New York in 1911. He didn’t think he’d be so connected

Memoir of raising 4 biological & 5 adopted kids No Biking In The House Without A Helmet By Melissa Fay Greene • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 354 pages • $26 Interview By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Former Daytonian Melissa Fay Greene is known for her accounts of

Musical about Southern Jewish family and maid during Civil Rights era at Loft Theatre By Jennie Szink, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Imagine being an 8-year-old who receives a large sum of money for Chanukah, only to lose it to your housekeeper — almost a second mother — because

Krav maga martial arts classes now at Boonshoft CJCE Story and Photos By Jessica Montan, The Dayton Jewish Observer A dozen students, teenage to middle age, stood in groups of two: one ready to point a fake gun, the other ready to swiftly but simply disarm the pretend assailant. If