By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer The first time Jeannie Opdyke Smith heard her mother’s story, she was 14. “One evening in 1972 the phone rang while we were having dinner and my Mom got up to answer it,” Smith recalls. “On the other end of the line was

A final thought in the Look at the Holy Book Series With Candace R. Kwiatek, The Jewish Family Identity Forum, The Dayton Jewish Observer I went to serve coffee to guests recently and discovered that much to my chagrin, I had forgotten to put in the filter before brewing. You

By Rabbi Levi Simon, Chabad of Greater Dayton According to the Jewish calendar we are now between the holidays of Pesach, Passover, and Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks. This period has a special name and mitzvah associated with it. It is called Sefirat HaOmer or the time of the counting

    Look for The Adventures of Bark Mitzvah Boy each month at this site and in The Dayton Jewish Observer. To read the complete June 2014 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.

The Jewish Internet with Mark Mietkiewicz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Shavuot is almost here. For a people hooked on a holiday diet of meat and poultry, Shavuot is unique on our gastronomic calendar: a festival that celebrates dairy food. Shavuot is best known for the giving of the

Leshon Ima – Mother Tongue with Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer On the sixth day of this month, the month of Sivan, we celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. In biblical times Shavuot was celebrated as an agricultural holiday. There is no reference in the Bible,

With Rachel Haug Gilbert, The Dayton Jewish Observer At Wright State’s spring commencement ceremony, held May 3 at the Nutter Center, the university presented an honorary doctor of humane letters degree to Debbie Feldman, president and CEO of Dayton Children’s Hospital. Before joining Children’s, Debbie was employed by Montgomery County

Robert M. Brackman, age 84 of Dayton, passed away May 17 at Good Samaritan Hospital after a lengthy bout with pneumonia and COPD. Born in Xenia to the late Celia and Bernard Brackman, Mr. Brackman is survived by Gloria, his devoted wife of 59 years, daughter Judith Martin of Dayton,

  Learning to rest — and listen — at Temple Beth Or Men’s Retreat Photos and Story By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer One by one, each man has expressed what he hopes to receive over the next 48 hours, and then places a slow-burning candle on a low

By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Hardly lost in a film of drama, love and a mostly Jewish football (soccer) team that beat a German team — despite the harshest of consequences — is the Nazi elimination of more than 7,000 Macedonian Jews during World War II.