Mitzvah Missions

Are you interested in supporting the Miami Valley? Join Jewish Family Services for a Mitzvah Mission! Throughout the year, JFS:

Partners with the JCC’s Early Childhood Program to take children to local independent and assisted living facilities for snacks, crafts and good fun.
Partners with other agencies of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton and Jewish organizations across Dayton to collect needed items for community organizations that provide vital resources to all in the Miami Valley. As a community, we have collected items for Artemis Center, Homefull, Dayton Children’s Hospital, Care House, The Dayton Foodbank, Clothes that Work, and more!
Involves the community in creating senior holiday outreach cards and bags for Rosh Hashanah, Purim, and Chanukah.
Hosts a December 25th Mitzvah Mission to make sack lunches, scarves, and ragdolls for St. Vincent de Paul.

Please see the Dayton Jewish Observer, the JFS Facebook Page, or the JewishDayton.org Calendar page for events.

July 2018 Mitzvah Mission Singing Woods

March 2018 Montgomery County Children’s Services Collection with JCC Women’s Seder

2017 Mitzvah Mission

2017 December 25th Mitzvah Mission

October 2017 Homefull Collections

September 2017 Collection for Hurricane Relieft

Mitzvah Mission at One Lincoln Park

2016 December 25th Mitzvah Mission

Jewish Observer

Temple Beth Or celebrates 40 years

‘We were all young, we all grew up together’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “Oh, I remember it vividly,” Rabbi Judy Chessin says of Temple Beth Or’s first Friday night Shabbat service, Jan. 25, 1985. In the worst snowstorm of that winter, more than 100 people came out The post Temple Beth Or celebrates 40 years appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Jewish Cemeteries project gets big boost with $450K matching gift

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Thanks to an anonymous donor’s matching gift of $450,000, the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton project has the potential to raise $900,000 over the next two and a half years. With the $3 million Jewish Cemeteries has already raised, that would easily put The post Jewish Cemeteries project gets big boost with $450K matching gift appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

How young Jews navigate Jew hatred

By Talia Doninger, Special to The Dayton Jewish Observer Samantha A. Vinokor-Meinrath never intended to become an expert on antisemitism. “I wish we were talking about anything else,” she tells The Observer. “I wish for all of us that antisemitism would be the realm of historians and not of contemporary The post How young Jews navigate Jew hatred appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]