Real Life Real Resources

Jewish Family Services’s Real Life Real Resources is an ongoing speaker series that provides the Jewish community and the greater Dayton area with informative panel sessions featuring local experts discussing hot button issues facing our communities today. Covering everything from LGBTQ issues to the regional opioid crisis, Jewish Family Services aims to improve the community’s knowledge base and resource awareness regarding the most pressing issues facing residents and families in Dayton.

Newtown: A Special Screening for the Community

Getting Your Affairs in Order

L’Chaim 2017: Schtick Happens

Downsize, Declutter, Donate

2017 Heroin Epidemic

L’Chaim 2016: Companionship is Ageless at the NEON

2016 Putting the J (Jewish Values) in LGBT Conversations

L’Chaim 2015: The Arts Come Alive in Dayton

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. [...]