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

Oct. 7 one-year memorial

Rabbis recited prayers and Psalms, leaders of Jewish community organizations lit memorial candles, and “victory before peace” emerged as a rallying cry at the Jewish Federation’s program to mark one year to the day since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre. From the podium of the multipurpose room at the The post Oct. 7 one-year memorial appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Stories to connect generations — and one another

Story and Photos by Talia Doninger, Special to The Dayton Jewish Observer Local Native Americans visited children with Beth Abraham Synagogue’s religious school Oct. 13 to share the art of their traditional storytelling. The Conservative congregation’s new religious school director, Elyssa Wortzman, organized the program to explore how Native Americans The post Stories to connect generations — and one another appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Air Force Jr. ROTC cadets help clean headstones at Beth Jacob Cemetery

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Who do you call when you need volunteers to help clean headstones at a cemetery that dates to 1875? In Beth Jacob Congregation’s case, they called on the Air Force Junior ROTC at Tecumseh High School in New Carlisle. Nine cadets teamed up The post Air Force Jr. ROTC cadets help clean headstones at Beth Jacob Cemetery appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]