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
First public commemoration 60 years ago at Beth Jacob Congregation By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer It was 60 years ago when Holocaust survivors invited the public to the Dayton area’s first community Yom Hashoah memorial service, held April 21, 1963 at Beth Jacob Congregation on Kumler Avenue. But The post Community Yom Hashoah Observance evolved from survivors’ bonds appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
By Lisa Keys, Kveller.com One of the most — if not the most — iconic Olympic gymnastics moments of all time was when Jewish gymnast Kerri Strug clinched the gold medal in the 1996 Olympics despite having a serious injury. With the encouragement of her coach, Béla Károlyi, Strug continued The post Kerri Strug to keynote Presidents Dinner appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
“Long live Europe, Am Yisrael Chai,” exclaimed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as she received an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University last year. Her words were quickly decried on Twitter as imperialistic “racist Nazi slogans.” In 2015, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s current national security minister, was arrested on the The post Am Yisrael Chai – The People of Israel Live appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]