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

Dayton Jewish Observer honored for best religion reporting in Ohio

Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus Society of Professional Journalists chapters statewide, announced July 3 that Dayton Jewish Observer Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss has received its 2024 first-place award for Best Religion Reporting in its small newspaper category (circulation below 60,000). This is the The post Dayton Jewish Observer honored for best religion reporting in Ohio appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Beth Abraham Synagogue’s Cantor Andrea Raizen retires

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Cantor Andrea Raizen’s retirement from Beth Abraham Synagogue at the end of July marks the first time in a generation that no Dayton area Jewish congregation will employ an invested cantor. And due to financial constraints, Beth Abraham plans to only employ one The post Beth Abraham Synagogue’s Cantor Andrea Raizen retires appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Former Daytonians living in Israel gather for reunion

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “It’s great in Dayton but Israel is home,” read a small hand-drawn banner taped to a refreshment table in the garden of Bracha and Yitzhak Zuriel’s home in Jerusalem. The Zuriels hosted a reunion for 40 former Daytonians — primarily baby boomers — The post Former Daytonians living in Israel gather for reunion appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]