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Counter demonstrators against a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio gather behind a security fence at Courthouse Square in the city's downtown on May 25, 2019.(Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images via JTA)
May 27, 2019, 4:33 am
KKK members drowned out by hundreds of counter-demonstrators in Ohio
9 white supremacists face off with 500 protesters in downtown Dayton; no arrests or reports of violence
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
May 24, 2019, 12:45 am
Dayton Jews cautioned to keep away from KKK rally
Rabbi Ari Ballaban calls on community members to not go to counter-protest but rather attend ‘positive alternative programming’ sponsored by the local NAACP chapter
By JTA
Avi Gilbert, left, and Menachem Simon harvest microgreen crops at Hillel Academy Jewish day school of Dayton, Ohio, March 7, 2019. (Marshall Weiss/Dayton Jewish Observer)
April 2, 2019, 11:35 pm
Ohio day school students farm microgreens through project with Israeli roots
An indoor farming initiative teaches fifth- and sixth-graders key skills, melds science with Jewish values related to food justice, and partners them with kids in the Jewish state
By Marshall Weiss
Mama Duck and her 14 hatchlings depart Dayton, Ohio's Temple Israel for the Miami River, April 22, 2017. (Screenshot of video by Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz)
April 25, 2017, 10:09 pm
Dayton synagogue has its ducks lined up
After a mama duck annually hatches eggs in Temple Israel’s courtyard, she parades her ducklings en route to a local river
By Marshall Weiss
Woosh co-founder and CEO Itay Tayas-Zamir (L) with Montgomery County Commissioner Dan Foley at the launch of Woosh Water Stations at Sinclair Community College in Dayton on February 1, 2016. (Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer)
February 11, 2016, 1:12 am
Ohio campus goes beta over Israeli start-up water system
In what it hopes will be a cascade of cooperation, the Dayton Region Israel Trade Alliance brings Woosh water stations to Sinclair Community College
By Marshall Weiss
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