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
By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “Ruth, I’m going to call you Regina,” Ira Segalewitz said from his home in Kettering when he saw his childhood sweetheart for the first time in 69 years, via Zoom on Nov. 8. “Call me whatever you want, just call me!” Ruth Brandspiegel The post 69 years later, DP camp friends reconnect appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
By Rabbi Benjamin G. Azriel, Temple Beth Or Electing a “precedent” is never an easy time for a community. Evaluating values, learning about the history of the concepts, incorporating morality into our lives are all parts of determining the precedent that we will elect. At Makor, Temple Beth Or’s Sunday The post Learning from our ‘precedential’ election appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
By Sophie Panzer , Jewish Exponent In 2012, a woman named Alice took a DNA test and expected it to reveal that her entire family hailed from Irish American and British ancestry. Instead, the test revealed that half her DNA was Ashkenazi Jewish. Her attempts to understand the results and The post Libby Copeland: DNA testing reveals family secrets, complicates identity appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]