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On Aug. 18, Sinclair Community College dedicated the art installation The Last Dress by Rachel Leathers (L) — winner of the 2007 Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest — at the library loggia. The annual contest — sponsored by Renate Frydman, director of the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center, in honor of her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, — is open to area students in grades 5-12. Leathers was a 14-year-old student at ChaminadeJulienne H.S. when she won the contest, and is now studying art at the Savannah (Georgia) College of Art and Design. She is shown here with Frydman’s daughter Melinda Doner, a past chair of the Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Committee.
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Members of Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua came together for an end-of-summer tradition, the congregation’s annual picnic at Hollows Park, on Aug. 17.
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In August, The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists announced that Marshall Weiss, editor and publisher of The Dayton Jewish Observer, is the recipient of its 2014 first-place award for Best Religion Reporting in the category of newspapers with circulation below 75,000. Weiss won the award for his July 2013 piece Convention Center goes kosher for Chabad wedding. This is his third first-place award from the Ohio SPJ competition and The Observer’s seventh Ohio SPJ first-place award overall. The annual Ohio SPJ competition is a collaborative project of the Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland SPJ chapters and honors print, broadcast, online, trade, and college journalists statewide for their best work during the previous year. The Observer is published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton.
Rabbi Judy Chessin and Israeli Ehud Borovoy will lead the video lecture series Engaging Israel: Foundations For A New Relationship at Temple Beth Or on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. beginning Oct. 14. A program of the Shalom Hartman Institute, the course presents video lectures about Jewish values and ideas as they relate to Diaspora Jews’ connections to Israel. Based in Jerusalem, The Shalom Hartman Institute is a pluralistic research and leadership center for Jewish thought and education. Registration is $36 and includes a source book and Israeli refreshments. The course is open to the community. Scholarships are available. Register by Oct. 6 with Leslie Beers at 435-3400.
Beth Abraham accepting Women of Valor nominations The Beth Abraham Synagogue Sisterhood is now accepting nominations for its 2015 Women of Valor Luncheon, to be held on May 6. Eligible for nomination are Dayton-area Jewish women who make significant contributions to their faithbased and secular communities. Chairs for the 2015 event are Ellen Leffak and Gayle Moscowitz. Nomination forms are available at bethabrahamdayton.org and at the synagogue office. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 8. For more information, call the synagogue at 293-9520. THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • OCTOBER 2014