By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer The Anti-Defamation League and two legal firms — Paul Weiss and Taft — filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the city of Springfield, its elected officials, and several residents against the Blood Tribe White supremacist hate group Feb. 6 in Dayton’s U.S.

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Dec. 20 that the University of Cincinnati had agreed to resolve a complaint that the school had failed to follow its obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. An investigation by the department’s Office for Civil Rights reviewed approximately two

Though he insists he was taken out of context, interview was ‘politicized.’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer A day after JTA distributed the news story, The only rabbi in Springfield, Ohio, says local Haitian migrants lack ‘Western civilized values,’ the rabbi, Cary Kozberg, issued a statement that he

The rabbi’s comments come as Jewish groups decry Donald Trump’s claims about migrants eating pets. By Andrew Lapin, JTA Since Donald Trump amplified baseless rumors about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, last week, the community has been beset with bomb threats and white nationalist activity. A leading Jewish

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer During public comments at Springfield’s Aug. 27 city commission meeting, Mayor Rob Rue cut off and ejected a man who identified himself as the leader of the neo-Nazi Blood Tribe group that marched with rifles in Springfield on Aug. 10. The Blood Tribe

It’s legal to openly carry guns in Ohio, individually or as a group. But what about aiming them at bystanders? By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Springfield Chief of Police Allison Elliott says her department was prepared for whatever might come its way on a hectic Saturday, Aug. 10. “This is

By Sam Fisher, cincyjewfolk.com With an overflow crowd of more than 250 people packed into a Cincinnati City Council public forum on Feb. 14, Mayor Aftab Pureval said he did not believe the city should take up the cease-fire resolution many in attendance were calling for. A standing-room crowd spilled

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer One city near Dayton and five communities in the Cincinnati area were littered with neo-Nazi flyers on Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16 and 17. In Tipp City, 16 miles north of Dayton in Miami County, “a lot more than 50” hate flyers were dropped

Austin Reid, who has documented the histories of more than a dozen small Jewish communities across Ohio, will lead the Ohio Genealogical Society webinar, Exploring Ohio’s Outlying and Vanished Jewish Communities, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 21. A native of Lancaster, Reid began researching the histories of Ohio’s small Jewish

An interview with Ohio Jewish Communities President/CEO Howie Beigelman By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Ohio’s significant expansion of its voucher program for private school use and its tax credit program for private school benefit are two reasons Howie Beigelman says the state’s 2024-25 budget “may be the best