Sunday, April 18, 2027
9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Temple Israel
130 Riverside Drive
Dayton, OH 45405

Jews and Dayton’s Booze Trade
Marshall Weiss, Editor and Publisher, The Dayton Jewish Observer; Project Director, Miami Valley Jewish Genealogy & History
Did you know that two members of Temple Israel started Dayton’s first wholesale liquor business? Ever hear of the “sacramental wine scandals” of the 1920s? Which local rabbi insisted his congregants drink grape juice instead of wine for Kiddush? Which Dayton Jewish bootlegger murdered two mobsters in cold blood and got away with it? A look back at how we navigated Prohibition here in the Gem City.

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