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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Marshall Weiss

Tipp City Board of Education member Anne Zakkour delivers a Nazi salute and utters "Sieg Heil" at board then-president Simon Patry during a public meeting, Sept. 5, 2023. (Screenshot via Tipp City Board of Education via JTA)
September 8, 2023, 4:57 am
Ohio school board member apologizes for Nazi salute at public meeting
Anne Zakkour says she made ‘sarcastic gesture’ of ‘submission to board member trying to act like a dictator’ and did not intend for it to alarm Jewish people
By Marshall Weiss
Marshall Brinn
April 27, 2023, 4:32 pm
Marshall Brinn
Ani Ohev: The things we love
The song modulates and layers as it goes on. It seems to capture something lovely and true about parenting
The facade of the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, replicates the front half of Titanic's exterior at 50 percent of the actual size, as does the Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri. (Marshall Weiss/ Dayton Jewish Observer)
September 24, 2022, 8:49 am
Titanic Jewish Experience offers a moving tribute to the liner’s Jewish history
Located in Pigeon Forge, the Titanic Museum’s exhibit on Jewish passengers and crew highlights the role of immigration at the time, while drawing a direct line to the Holocaust
By Marshall Weiss
Benny Landsman, 4, at Dayton Children’s Hospital April 8, 2021, before surgery to receive the first clinical trial of a new gene therapy for Canavan disease. (Courtesy of the Landsman family/ via Dayton Jewish Observer)
May 8, 2021, 3:46 am
New gene therapy trial in US offers hope for children with Canavan disease
4-year-old Benny Landsman is first to receive experimental procedure for condition that causes blindness, paralysis, seizures, and average life expectancy of under a decade
By Marshall Weiss
At left: Israel ‘Srulik’ Segalovitch, now Ira Segalewitz and Regina Puter, now Ruth Brandspiegel, in screenshots from a Zoom reunion, top, and together as teenagers, bottom. (Zoom/ Collection of Ira Segalewitz); Top right: A handkerchief from Ruth that Ira kept, along with his DP camp school memory book. (Photo by Scott Segalewitz); Bottom right: Purim in the Hallein DP camp, 1950. Ira is 3rd from left, Ruth is center. (Collection of Ira Segalewitz)
November 20, 2020, 10:35 am
Friends from post-WWII Displaced Persons camp reconnect on Zoom after 69 years
After Ira Segalewitz chanced upon an article with the name of his teenage sweetheart Ruth Brandspiegel, a tearful reunion conjures stories of tribulations and childhood bliss
By Marshall Weiss
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
Signing the agreement on Jan. 24 between the American Jewish Committee and the US Conference of Mayors for AJC to host annual trips to Israel for US mayors (L to R): AJC CEO David Harris, Conference of Mayors CEO Tom Cochran, and Conference of Mayors International Committee Chair Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton. (US Conference of Mayors/ via Dayton Jewish Observer)
February 16, 2019, 3:42 pm
Mayors of US cities now have the option of joining an annual trip to Israel
The AJC has partnered with the US Conference of Mayors to host a yearly organized tour of the Holy Land focusing on hi-tech, education, culture and the Mideast conflict
By Marshall Weiss
Author Moriel Rothman-Zecher. (YouTube screenshot)
December 29, 2018, 2:36 am
A conscientious objector to the IDF, this Israeli-American says he is a patriot
Moriel Rothman-Zecher spent time in Israeli military prison rather than serve. It’s a period reflected in his critically acclaimed first novel, ‘Sadness Is A White Bird’
By Marshall Weiss
Detail from travelogue poster for 'With Allenby in Palestine' and 'Lawrence in Arabia' by Lowell Thomas. (Courtesy)
December 21, 2017, 4:07 am
How the 1917 Battle of Jerusalem surrender flag ended up in Greenville, Ohio
From the Jaffa Gate to a small Midwestern museum, an artifact representing the creation of the modern Middle East makes an incredible journey
By Marshall Weiss
A photo collection of 'GOY' license plates spotted by Marshall Weiss. (Courtesy)
August 30, 2017, 1:46 am
Bureau of Motor Vehicles sends a Jew on a ‘goy’ ride
Amid a climate of ‘hate-baiting’ in the US, a bizarre choice of license plate numbers is driving one reporter up the walls
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
Orville (L), Katharine and Wilbur Wright, 1909. (Photo: Bain Collection/Library of Congress)
March 15, 2017, 12:58 am
Writer to right passage on Wright’s wrong
Famed historian David McCullough is quick to amend an excerpt describing anti-Semitic remarks by sister of fathers of flight
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
Agunah or 'anchored woman' Adina Porat waited for a writ of divorce from her husband for eight years. (YouTube screenshot)
January 11, 2016, 3:38 am
How social media helped free a ‘chained’ woman after 8 years
Following intense public pressure — and a little help from YouTube — an Ohio man provides a Jewish bill of divorce to the wife he abandoned in Israel
By Marshall Weiss
Agunah or 'anchored woman' Adina Porat waited for a writ of divorce from her husband for eight years. (YouTube screenshot)
October 29, 2015, 2:22 pm
Stuck in Jewish divorce limbo, Israeli woman wins viral support
Rally to free ‘chained woman’ puts Dayton’s small Midwest Jewish community at center of issue few outside of Orthodox world understand
By Marshall Weiss
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