Breast Awareness Event Fox 45 and ABC 22 news anchor Michelle Kingsfield will serve as emcee for the Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation’s Breast Health Seminar for Jewish Women on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Boonshoft CJCE. When she was 14 weeks pregnant with

Sole-ful Chanukah The Dayton area’s Jewish community organizations will join together to host a Chanukah torch relay culminating in a community-wide celebration with “kosher gospel” as part of A Sole-ful Chanukah on Sunday, Dec. 17, the second day of Chanukah. The celebration is a project of the Dayton Synagogue Forum —

Mikvehs Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer Ritual baths proposed at Sugar Camp, land cleared at Beth Jacob Plans are underway for two new mikveh buildings in the Miami Valley: one in Harrison Township, the other in Oakwood. At the Oakwood Planning Commission’s public hearing on Dec. 13, the owners

Ethiopian documentary Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer With a key architect of Ethiopian aliyah present, the Levin Family Foundation announced on Dec. 12 that it will produce a feature-length documentary about Ethiopians of Jewish descent and their immigration to Israel. Karen Levin, executive director of the Levin Family Foundation,

Harvard Law Charlotte Jacobson The Dayton Jewish Observer Andrew Bernie and Jeremy Kress aren’t the first from Dayton’s Jewish community to attend Harvard Law School. But to have multiple Harvard Law students from our area at one time gives us that much more naches. “I expected everyone to be super-smart

Wonderful weddings 2007 Vicki Bernie Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Whether it began with a secret rendezvous culminating in elopement or an epiphany in a Paris taxi, there probably isn’t a single married couple who doesn’t look back occasionally and think, “If only we knew then what we know

Partership 10th Anniversary Mary Youra Chair, Jewish Community Relations Council               On Dec. 4, the Dayton Jewish community, volunteers and Federation staff from the central United States, and Israelis celebrated 10 years of the Partnership with Israel program with a dinner at the National

Counterrorism programs Prof. Amos N. Guiora, director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve School of Law, will present two programs for the Jewish Community Relations Council on Thursday, Feb. 8. At 4 p.m., he will lead the discussion Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism in

Interfaith Tu B’Shevat Seder Interfaith couples and families are welcome to join us on Saturday, Feb. 3, 6 p.m. at the Boonshoft CJCE to celebrate the New Year of the Trees. The DJCC will have activities for children and a brief discussion for adults. DJCC members: $5 adult, $3 child. Non-members:

Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer In January, the two new mikveh facilities planned for the Dayton area came closer to fruition with the site dedication and announcement of a lead gift for one, and a municipal planning comm-ission’s positive recommendation for the other. On Jan. 7, the Dayton Ritualarium