Peace Accords:10 years Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Leader of Bosnian Jewish community would like to establish links with Jews of Dayton By the morning of Nov. 16, several dignitaries from Bosnia and Herzegovinia had arrived in Dayton to take part in the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Dayton

Hillel class Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer At Hillel Academy, it’s 3:30 p.m. on a Thursday. In a classroom, empty desks are arranged in a semicircle. Black judges’ robes are wadded up in a chair. Students, laughing and talking, trample stalks of wheat into the carpet

Darfur project By Michelle Tedford The Dayton Jewish Observer People are dying, starving, marching away from their villages that were burned by their government. It is happening so far away — in the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa — that it is hard for many to connect with the

Wonderful Weddings Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Every wedding is different, but it’s the rare one that doesn’t involve some travail and controversy. When Sarah announced she was planning to marry her Swedish Lutheran boyfriend in Stockholm, her father, Temple Israel member Aaron Burke, said that

Naturalization ceremony speech On July 14, 1940, my grandfather, Henry Guggenheimer, left Berlin, Germany, and set out on what would become one of the greatest journeys of his life. He, along with his mother, my great-grandmother, had earlier left Stuttgart, Germany, their hometown, for Berlin; and even that passage, short

Rain Pryor Naomi Pfefferman Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Rain Pryor’s one-woman show comes to Springfield Feb. 4 She solemnly chants the Kol Nidre as the spotlight reveals her silhouette — wearing a hilariously oversized Afro wig. “What’s the big deal if I’m black and a Jew?” Rain Pryor says. She

DJCC Yiddish Club Renate Frydman Special To The Observer Like many people who are first- or second-generation Jews in America, Lynda A. Cohen heard her first Yiddish spoken at home. But she also attended a Yiddish preschool in New York. Historically, Yiddish was the language of the Jews of Central

Piqua congregation Martha Moody Jacobs Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Anshe Emeth, Piqua’s Reform congregation of almost 150 years, has two big problems: people don’t know about it, and the roof leaks. Kate Theise, who composes the Anshe Emeth newsletter, tells of moving to Troy seven years ago and

Interfaith build Michelle Tedford Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer As a warm rain falls on her muddy front yard, Shirley White’s thoughts turn to the flower bulbs and grass seed she’ll soon plant. To White, these musings are about more than the coming of spring. The yard represents a

Rabbi Samuel and Miriam Fox Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Beth Jacob to honor Miriam and Rabbi Samuel Fox for 50 years Some 53 years ago, Miriam Tarczewski, a student at NYU, was fixed up on a date with a young rabbi from Little Rock, Ark. Two weeks later,