By Rabbi Nochum Mangel, Chabad of Dayton We have just celebrated Simchat Torah. Synagogues were filled with singing and dancing, parades and happiness, celebrating the gift of Torah. But what do we mean by Torah and why do we celebrate it? We use the word Torah in different ways. Sometimes,

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

Chabad business ethics course Chabad’s Rabbi Nochum Mangel leads a Business Ethics Roundtable   By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Beginning this month, a course designed and taught by Chabad of Greater Dayton Director Rabbi Nochum Mangel will be available for use to more than 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch institutions around

Religion May 2010 By Rabbi Nochum Mangel, Chabad of Greater Dayton Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer, May 2010 Rabbi Nochum Mangel Near the end of March, Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan, a 31-year-old dentist, graduated as an officer at Fort Sam Houston after the U.S. Army made an exemption to