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

Look at Us celebrates our Jewish artists & artisans

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In a talk at Temple Israel nearly 30 years ago, celebrated local artist Ray Must made a point that was important to him: “I am a Jew who is an artist, not a ‘Jewish artist.’ My work is directed to wider audiences and The post Look at Us celebrates our Jewish artists & artisans appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Rabbi Hillel’s strong call to action

By Rabbi Levi Simon, Chabad of Greater Dayton There is a captivating story in the Talmud that illuminates the extent to which Judaism values, loves, and is tolerant of all people — and teaches us to do the same. There was once a gentile who wished to convert to Judaism The post Rabbi Hillel’s strong call to action appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Mazel Tov!

Beavercreek’s library has a new name: on June 21 it was renamed the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library in honor of the city’s former mayor and current Greene County Public Library president. Carol has served for 19 years on the board of the county’s public library system, seven of them as The post Mazel Tov! appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]