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

On Rosh Hashanah, neo-Nazi flyers dropped at Tipp City homes and in Cincinnati area

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer One city near Dayton and five communities in the Cincinnati area were littered with neo-Nazi flyers on Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16 and 17. In Tipp City, 16 miles north of Dayton in Miami County, “a lot more than 50” hate flyers were dropped The post On Rosh Hashanah, neo-Nazi flyers dropped at Tipp City homes and in Cincinnati area appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Dayton’s Temple Israel among U.S. synagogues targeted with a Rosh Hashanah swatting threat

Police responded in minutes, services continued without disruption. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer With more than 300 people praying in Temple Israel’s Great Hall on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, seven Dayton police cruisers and a MetroParks cruiser converged to block the congregation’s main entrance minutes after The post Dayton’s Temple Israel among U.S. synagogues targeted with a Rosh Hashanah swatting threat appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Tipp City Board of Ed member regrets Nazi outburst at Tuesday night meeting

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Tipp City Board of Education Member Anne Zakkour told The Observer Thursday morning that she is sorry for giving the Nazi salute and saying, “Sieg Heil’ to then board President Simon Patry during a work session Tuesday evening. “In hindsight, I regret having The post Tipp City Board of Ed member regrets Nazi outburst at Tuesday night meeting appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]