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Cincinnati’s Jewish Montessori school recently celebrated its kindergarten class finishing up its school year and preparing to transition into first grade.
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Cincinnati’s Jewish Montessori school recently celebrated its kindergarten class finishing up its school year and preparing to transition into first grade.
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Surrounded by family, friends, professors, mentors and community members, 10 students who have completed their rabbinical studies on the Cincinnati campus were ordained as rabbis by Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, PhD, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of R…
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Congregants and friends gathered June 2 to bid a farewell to Adath Israel Congregation’s longtime rabbi and his wife.
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Shared Business Services (SBS) has hired Rita Altimari as director of Human Resources.
As adults get older, they can become more vulnerable to scams and different types of abuse – sometimes from those whom they trust. The statistics show this is a pervasive problem, which is becoming increasingly common.
The Ohio Senate released its amended version of the state’s operating budget – Sub. HB 166 – for the upcoming two fiscal years (2020-2021).
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Last week (July 13, 2019) The American Israelite reported that seven staff members from Camp Livingston were stranded on June 9 in a flash flood.
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One of the leading Holocaust education and remembrance experts told those graduating from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion that they have been blessed and they should share in that blessing.
Adath Israel Congregation will host its third annual Cincinnati Kosher Barbeque Cook-Off & Festival on Sunday, July 14.
Due to the smashing success of last year’s Yappy Hour event at Wise Temple, the Empty Nesters group decided not to mess with a winning formula. This year’s Yappy Hour: Bark & Beer, Wag & Wine, is a dog friendly evening of fun and friendship, and will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 2…
The future of international criminal law will be discussed at “Legacy of Justice: the Military Tribunal and International Criminal Law” at the Holocaust and Humanity Center at 6p.m. Wednesday, June 19.
Due to popular demand, the Cincinnati Skirball Museum has extended its two current exhibitions.
The Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati has just added the collection of Yahad – In Unum’s video eyewitnesses testimonies of the “Holocaust By Bullets” as part of its permanent exhibition.
When heavy rains hit southeast Indiana Sunday, June 9, Indian Creek, which runs near Camp Livingston, overflowed.
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The AJC of Cincinnati was told the stakes for the Jewish community are as high now as they were 75 years ago, when the chapter began.
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Family members and friends of Lucille “Twink” Klau Carothers, along with members of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion family, gathered on Sunday, May 19, in the Klau Library on HUC-JIR’s Cincinnati campus to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Klau Library Renovation an…
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A proposal by the Mayerson JCC that would transform 30 acres of 130 acres in Amberley Village into a space for pools and summer camp is being considered by Amberley Village.
“I’ve been looking for a way to have a Jewish community in our lives for a long time, and this was such an easy way to build that community.”
The NextGen@Wise program is open to all Jewish young professionals, age 21-35 and their partners.
In honor of LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) Pride Month and Shavuot, Adath Israel Congregation will host a study session focusing on LGBTQ+ pride at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 8.
Following up on the successes of past years, Northern Hills Synagogue invites the entire community to join in a festival of food and fun at the third annual River City Kosher BBQ Festival.
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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) will host the official opening on Thursday, May 30, of a major new exhibit, “Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise: An American Dreamer” which showcases numerous documents and family objects from the AJA’s vast collection relating to Wise.
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The Jewish National Fund recognized Israel’s 71st Independence Day May 14 with a breakfast celebrating its people.
The Jewish Community Relations Council’s (JCRC) 80-year-old mission of fighting antisemitism and working to secure a just society for all will take center stage with new relevancy at its annual meeting on June 18. Under the theme “The Oldest Hatred in a New World,” the JCRC will showcase its…
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An overflow standing room crowd of close to 300 people gathered at Chabad Jewish Center on May 13 to honor the memory of the well-known Judaic educator Shterna Sarah Kalmanson.
Social Security is supposed to be simple. You retire and, all of a sudden, you start receiving those checks in the mail, right?
On Sunday, May 19, after the last Religious School session of the school year, members of the Wise Temple Brotherhood prepared and treated Religious School students to a gourmet picnic lunch in honor of the last day of school.
If observance were a function of theology, Shavuot would be the most widely observed of Jewish holidays. But precisely the opposite is the case among modern Jews. No major festival suffers from greater neglect. Yet Shavuot, which caps the period of seven weeks since the second Passover seder…
(JTA) — An Indiana man sympathetic to Nazism and white supremacy was sentenced to three years in prison for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the property of a suburban Indianapolis synagogue.
(JTA) — Nine members of the Ku Klux Klan, eight of them wearing masks, rallied in Dayton, Ohio, alongside more than 500 counter demonstrators May 25.
We are taught from the time we are young how to prepare for a wide variety of natural emergencies, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and fires. Some may even remember “Duck and Cover” air raid/nuclear bomb drills. Yet, most people have never had to use this knowledge. There is, thankfully, no g…
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Marty Hiudt almost broke down talking about his friend Jay Price.
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The community is invited to celebrate two events with the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Graduation ceremonies will be at 11 a.m. Friday, May 31, in the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the historic Cincinnati campus of HUC-JIR, 3101 Clifton Avenue.
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May 9, 2019, marked a special evening, wherein members and guests of all ages came together to celebrate Israel’s 71st birthday.
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The appeal of Congregation Sha’arei Torah that drew Rabbi Ezra Goldschmiedt to become rabbi there is still there after almost six years.
Following the Shavuot holiday meal, many people proceed to synagogue for Ma’ariv [the evening service], followed by an all-night (or into-the-night, as many last only until midnight) Torah study session based on the kabbalists’ [mystics’] practice.
The festival of Shavuot transformed from a purely agricultural into a historical and religious holiday. Originally mentioned in the Torah as a harvest festival, over time it took on new meanings so that now — like the other pilgrimage festivals — Shavuot has an agricultural, historical and r…
As part of the weekend celebration of the legacy of Rabbi Irvin M. and Kathy Wise, Adath Israel will host a special Shabbat lunch and program following services on Saturday, June 1.
Following a brief, meaningful Shavuot service at Wise Temple on Saturday, June 8, Rabbis Lewis Kamrass, Karen Thomashow, and Michael Danziger will conduct a Torah study on the topic of “What part of our rabbinate is inspired by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise?”
Over the next few weeks, the Jewish people will be counting the omer daily until Shavuot, a celebration of the Jews’ reception of the Torah.
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Your gift to the Jewish Federation’s Annual Campaign is once again in action supporting the Israeli friends and family during these difficult days with trauma relief and basic necessities through the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)’s Fund for the Victims of Terror.
Along with Passover and Sukkot, Shavuot is one of the three major Jewish pilgrimage festivals. It falls out precisely 49 days after the second day of Passover, a period of time known as the Omer, and marks the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai.
It is a small group compared to other cities, but the Cincinnati chapter of NCSY is active and doing quite well.
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On Friday night, May 3, nearly 300 Wise Temple congregants converged at historic Plum Street Temple to celebrate Shabbat with a unique Beatles service and vibrant after-party.
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The core strength of Jewish Family Services has always been responding and reaching out to the Jewish community.
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Jennifer Grayson, Ph.D., was inaugurated as the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of History on Sunday, April 14, in the Chapel on the HUC-JIR Cincinnati campus.
Nine alumni of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion were honored for 25 years of service, having been ordained on the Cincinnati campus in 1994, at the annual Founders’ Day Ceremonies on Thursday, April 4.
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