The Dayton Jewish Observer

07/23/2025

Report | Spanish airline Vueling forcibly removed the director of a Jewish summer camp and approximately 50 children from a flight, according to footage shared on social media.

07/23/2025

Op-ed by David Horovitz.

A war that began with the imperative to destroy Hamas's military machine and get back the hostages has metastasized into an Israeli military takeover of most of Gaza, overseen by a government dependent on the support of would-be permanent occupiers

07/21/2025

Israel rejects the joint statement signed by 25 Western nations calling for an “unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza and condemning Israel’s handling of the humanitarian situation in the territory, the Foreign Ministry writes on X.

The statement “is disconnected from reality and sends the wrong message to Hamas,” the ministry says, asserting that “all statements and all claims should be directed at the only party responsible for the lack of a deal for the release of hostages and a ceasefire: Hamas, which started this war and is prolonging it.”

The terror group has “stubbornly” refused the latest ceasefire proposal, which Israel agreed to, is “running a campaign to spread lies about Israel,” and “deliberately acting to increase friction and harm to civilians who come to receive humanitarian aid,” the ministry adds.

07/21/2025

Britain and 24 Western allies including Australia, Canada, France and Italy say in a joint statement the war in Gaza “must end now,” arguing civilians’ suffering has “reached new depths.”

“We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” the group adds in the communique.

They say more than 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid and condemned what it called the “drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.”

07/17/2025

Israel struck the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people.

07/17/2025

Mazel tov, Mike Sakal!

By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Of the hundreds of interviews Mike Sakal conducted over three decades for his just published two-volume book, Dayton Hungarians: Their Stories, Glories and Folklore, it was Rose Vegso’s that set the tone for the project. Vegso came to the United States...

07/17/2025

Two people were killed in an alleged Israeli attack on the sole Roman Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says.

“We pray that their souls rest (in peace) and for an end to this barbaric war. Nothing can justify the targeting of innocent civilians,” says the Patriarchate, which oversees the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.

07/16/2025

"We told the Israelis to stand down and take a breath," a U.S. official said. That has not happened.

07/16/2025

In an unusual move, United States Ambassador Mike Huckabee attended a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial on Wednesday, in a show of support.

“I’m going to go by today and sit through a little of it. It should be very interesting to be a witness to it,” Huckabee said at an event in Tel Aviv prior to his arrival at the court.

Asked by an interviewer to explain the unusual decision, Huckabee referenced the bond between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, who last month explicitly demanded an end to the trial, describing it as a “witch hunt.”

07/16/2025

August issue.

Dayton, Ohio's Jewish Monthly

07/16/2025

Temple Israel in Columbus is among the synagogues to participate in a nationwide initiative established by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to reaffirm each participating community’s commitment to welcoming those

07/15/2025

Syria on Tuesday condemned Israel’s airstrikes on the southern province of Sweida, which targeted government forces as they entered the region where bloody sectarian clashes with local Druze militias have raged in recent days.

“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the treacherous Israeli aggression carried out today through coordinated drone attacks and military airstrikes,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The statement said that “a number of our armed forces and security personnel” as well as “several innocent civilians” were killed.



Damascus “holds Israel fully responsible for this aggression and its consequences,” it added, stressing Syria’s “legitimate right to defend its land and its people by all means permitted under international law.”

Earlier Tuesday, Israel carried out a heavy bombing campaign against Syrian government forces as they were rolling into the Druze-majority Sweida, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said was meant to protect “the Druze in Syria due to the deep brotherly alliance with our Druze citizens in Israel.”