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Make Dayton your home! We have a warm, vibrant Jewish community. There are lots of reasons to move here…check out this video for more information!

Need more convincing that Dayton is a great place to live?  Check out our top 10:

  1. Dayton is one of the one of the top 10 most affordable cities to live.
  2. Dayton has one of the nation’s largest paved trail networks – our metroparks are great!
  3. Dayton is the adventure capital of the Midwest.
  4. Dayton and western Ohio offer a perfect blend of affordability, job opportunities and more.
  5. The Dayton region is one of the most hikable areas in the country.
  6. The Dayton region has a suburb ranked best place to live in Ohio. And downtown Dayton is booming!
  7. The Dayton region has a vast array of higher education options.
  8. The Dayton region is the forerunner to the SIlicon Valley.
  9. Dayton, Ohio has changed the world.
  10. Dayton, Ohio is one of the best places to explore the arts and culture.

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JewishDayton COVID 19 : Community Event Updates

JewishDayton COVID 19 : Community Event Updates

In the midst of a rapidly evolving COVID19 situation within the Miami Valley and across the United States, we as an organization are taking all of the steps outlined by the State of Ohio and the Montgomery County Department of Health in order to both prevent the community spread of the virus and support containment efforts.

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Cathy’s WHIM – #Dayton Strong

Cathy’s WHIM – #Dayton Strong

Our city of Dayton has been inundated with an unprecedented amount of challenges in the past months. This weekend, the pain that has recently been felt in Pittsburgh, in Gilroy, and in El Paso, came to Dayton and it has impacted us all.

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Recent Posts

Jewish Observer

Trauma therapist Miri Bar-Halpern — who with Jaclyn Wolfman coauthored the paper Traumatic invalidation in the Jewish community after Oct. 7 in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment in May — will keynote the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton and its agencies’ annual meeting brunch, 11:30 a.m., The post Traumatic invalidation paper coauthor keynotes Federation annual meeting brunch, Aug. 17 appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman strike a nerve with a paper about the mental toll of being told your distress and fears don’t count. By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman don’t use the term “gaslighting” in their paper on Jewish trauma after Oct. 7, but they might The post These therapists give a name to the way Jewish distress has been ignored since Oct. 7: ‘Traumatic invalidation’ appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Of the hundreds of interviews Mike Sakal conducted over three decades for his just published two-volume book, Dayton Hungarians: Their Stories, Glories and Folklore, it was Rose Vegso’s that set the tone for the project. Vegso came to the United States from Hungary The post Dayton Hungarians highlights significant Jewish connections appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]

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