‘We were all young, we all grew up together’ By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “Oh, I remember it vividly,” Rabbi Judy Chessin says of Temple Beth Or’s first Friday night Shabbat service, Jan. 25, 1985. In the worst snowstorm of that winter, more than 100 people came out The post Temple Beth Or celebrates 40 years appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Thanks to an anonymous donor’s matching gift of $450,000, the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton project has the potential to raise $900,000 over the next two and a half years. With the $3 million Jewish Cemeteries has already raised, that would easily put The post Jewish Cemeteries project gets big boost with $450K matching gift appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
By Talia Doninger, Special to The Dayton Jewish Observer Samantha A. Vinokor-Meinrath never intended to become an expert on antisemitism. “I wish we were talking about anything else,” she tells The Observer. “I wish for all of us that antisemitism would be the realm of historians and not of contemporary The post How young Jews navigate Jew hatred appeared first on The Dayton Jewish Observer. [...]
