‘We might be smaller, but we’ve got to be mightier’ An interview with Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton’s new president, Judy Abromowitz By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Columbus native Judy Abromowitz began volunteering at her mother’s side. “I remember even as a kid helping stuff envelopes for Hadassah

Federation will unveil new volunteer initiative, plans for coming year, progress on strategic plan By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer When Federation CEO Cathy Gardner says the Federation’s annual meeting will give the community a taste of what’s in store for the new year, she means it. Rue Dumaine’s

Tampa native Cathy Gardner is the Jewish Federation’s new executive vice president By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer After Cathy Gardner’s initial phone interview with the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton’s executive search committee, she felt the magic. “And when I came here for my personal three-day interview,” she

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer At its meeting on Nov. 28, the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton hired Cathy Gardner to serve as the Federation’s new executive vice president. Gardner, who lives in Tampa, will begin her work in Dayton on Dec. 10. “Among the

With board approval, Federation begins implementing three-pillar strategic plan By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With the Jewish Federation board’s approval of a new mission statement and strategic plan on Jan. 18, the Federation has established committees to implement the plan’s three priority areas: improving collaboration, programming, and marketing

  Hillel Academy of Greater Dayton’s kindergarten students have partnered with Hava Nigila Gan school in Israel. To kick-off this twinning project of Partnership2Gether, Hillel students sent notes and pictures to the students in Israel. To see the Hillel Academy Dayton video, click here. Hava Nigila Early Education Coordinator Efrat

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With results of the Jewish Federation’s online community survey and focus groups in hand, Federation’s strategic planning committee has launched three work groups to devise strategies to improve Federation’s performance based on community priorities. Those priorities as indicated in the survey and focus

Religion, July 2010 Rabbi Haviva Horvitz By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz, Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown My mission was to write an article for the religion column in the July issue of The Dayton Jewish Observer on any topic of my choosing. It seemed easy enough and I enjoy writing, so this

Lou Goldman obituary, January 2011 Lou Goldman Lou Goldman, who served as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton from 1972 to 1974 and was a national chairman of United Jewish Appeal, died on Dec. 6 at the age of 82. As a young man, Goldman saw Golda Meir