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

By Meghan Walsh Cleveland Jewish News Eighteen neo-Nazis showed up to the Toledo Love Fest in Uptown Toledo and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo in Sylvania on the evening of July 15 to protest against the LGBTQ and Jewish communities at their respective locations. The group, called Blood Tribe,

Survivor’s little prayer shawl to be exhibited as part of Cincinnati museum’s permanent collection. The day 15-year-old David Hochstein boarded a train fleeing from Nazi Germany in 1939, his father’s last words to him were, “Never forget that you are a Jew.” He never saw his parents again. Hochstein honored

By Ron Kampeas, JTA In its closing session, Ohio’s legislature passed a law imposing penalties of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine for “zoombombing” religious services, a practice that antisemites have used to intimidate Jews. The law, Increasing Penalties for Disturbing a Religious Service, passed unanimously

Oxford Police Department: ‘No religious bias involved’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Three Miami University students who turned themselves in six days after vandalizing Hillel at Miami’s sukkah had their felony charges dropped down and were convicted of criminal damages, a second-degree misdemeanor, in Butler County Court on

This afternoon, the Oxford, Ohio Police Department released a statement that it has charged three Miami University students — Santiago Arenas, 19; Kevin J. Ladriere, 20; and Eli W. Lauger, 20 — with vandalism, a felony, for overturning MU Hillel’s sukkah on Oct. 15. The statement added that Oxford police