What’s YOUR Coming of Age Story? Are you a teenager or young adult 14-20? Are you available February 7, 14, & 21 and April 11 from 1PM -2:30PM (EST)? Collaborate and share your unique experience over four zoom sessions through photography and writing with a group of peers from Dayton, San Antonio, Texas, and the […]
You are invited to a JCRC Community Conversation with Kenneth S. Stern, author of the passionate book The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate. In his book, Stern examines attempts from each side to censor the other, at a time when some say students are being protected from difficult ideas and issues rather […]
What’s YOUR Coming of Age Story? Are you a teenager or young adult 14-20? Are you available February 7, 14, & 21 and April 11 from 1PM -2:30PM (EST)? Collaborate and share your unique experience over four zoom sessions through photography and writing with a group of peers from Dayton, San Antonio, Texas, and the […]
What’s YOUR Coming of Age Story? Are you a teenager or young adult 14-20? Are you available February 7, 14, & 21 and April 11 from 1PM -2:30PM (EST)? Collaborate and share your unique experience over four zoom sessions through photography and writing with a group of peers from Dayton, San Antonio, Texas, and the […]
Congress opens each session with a prayer offered by a chaplain or guest chaplain. Among the guest chaplains are Rabbis. Howard Mortman’s book is about the rabbis who provided Jewish prayers in the literal and figurative center of American democracy. Mortman’s exhaustive research delivers a manuscript, written in approachable prose, that uniquely tells the story […]
A JCRC Community Conversation Meaningful Dialogue: Having Conversations on Critical Issues The University of Dayton launched its Dialogue Zone in 2019 as a physical space in which students, faculty, and staff can come together for dialogue on timely subjects. UD's Human Rights Center partners with the Dialogue Zone on many events, while also hosting a […]
Join us for a virtual toast & commemoration! We invite Dayton's Jewish community to share a three to five minute creative presentation to honor an influential Jewish woman. Cathy Gardner, Jewish Federation CEO honors Bella Abzug, Marcy L. Paul, PhD, JCRC Director will honor Emma Goldman, and Megan Ullom, JCRC Administrative Assistant, honors Gertrude Weil. […]
Tuesday, March 16 A JCRC Community Conversation From Hallein, Austria to Philadelphia and Dayton: The story of two Jewish refugees reunited after 69 years 7-8PM, via Zoom November 8, 2020 was the date that reunited close friends, Israel ‘Srulik’ Segalewicz and Regina Puter. They were teenagers when they last saw each other in 1951 at […]
Join us on April 8th for a live reading of Dr. King’s speech, Breaking the Silence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr spoke out powerfully against the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967. Exactly one year later, King was assassinated. All speech sections have been assigned -- registration is still open for attendees! After you have registered, […]
In recent months, Dayton’s JCRC engaged participants from Dayton, Ohio, San Antonio, Texas, Budapest, Hungary, and the Western Galilee, Israel to explore their Coming of Age experiences, marking their transition from adolescence to adulthood. Participants included teens, young adults, and life-long learners. For some participants it was a recent moment and for others, it was filled with memories of […]