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Ladies, Let’s Talk About Hair
For many women, hair is deeply personal. When nature doesn’t cooperate, we color it, straighten it, curl it, extend it, and sometimes replace it entirely. For Orthodox Jewish women, the relationship can be even more complicated. Many married women cover their hair and invest thousands of dollars in beautiful human-hair sheitels.
CEO ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT, BOARD NAMES INTERIM CO-CEOS AND LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION PLAN
Cincinnati — Jewish Family Service CEO Liz Vogel announced she will retire on August 28. With Vogel’s full support, COO Linda Kean and Chief Services Officer Ann Sutton Burke have been named Interim Co-CEOs. Both are experienced and versatile leaders. “We have been prepared for any succession scenario and had a strong plan in place.
Fretboard Brewing Puts Substance in Familiar Styles
At Fretboard Brewing Company, the music theme is easy to notice, but the more lasting impression comes from the beer itself. The brewery’s lineup is approachable in style, but grounded in a way that gives the beers a recognizable identity. Across a four-beer flight, that quality came through as an earthy thread — not a flaw, but a distinction.
Avi Mayer: A Man Between Two Countries
As I opened my conversation with Avi Mayer, he told me about a cat that lived in his neighborhood. “We’re in an open relationship,” he said, settling into his seat at Cafe Alma, Pleasant Ridge’s Israeli bistro. “I feed him, but I don’t think we’re exclusive.” He said it with the timing of someone who has learned that a dry sense of humor can take you surprisingly far in life.
The Storm Before Normandy
Anthony Maras’s wartime drama Pressure begins where many D-Day stories do not: before the boats, before the beaches, before the order that would send thousands of men toward the coast of Normandy. Starring Andrew Scott as meteorologist James Stagg, Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Kerry Condon as Kay Summersby, the film narrows its attention to the tense 72 hours before the invasion, when the fate of the operation turned, in part, on a weather forecast.
Adath Israel Country Showcase Brings Down the House
On May 31, congregants and friends gathered at Adath Israel to honor Mitch Cohen’s retirement as Communications Director — and to celebrate the music that defined his nearly two decades of service.
A Girl from Cincinnati and a Sky Full of Missiles
My name is Ella Karito, and I am from Cincinnati. We visit Israel at least once a year. My parents are from Israel, and I have a big family there. I have experienced sirens and missiles before, and let me tell you, hearing about the war is very different from standing there when it is actually happening.
Palestinian Activists, Covington Workers and the Kentucky Taxpayer
If you spend enough time around downtown Covington, you begin to notice a common theme plaguing the city’s streets. A slogan appears on a stop sign: Boycott Israel. A sticker shows up on a parking meter: Free Gaza. Painted text materializes on a municipal power box: 680,000 killed in Gaza. Then, a few days later, a city employee arrives with a scraper, a paint roller, or a replacement sign. The message disappears. The worker leaves. A week later, it starts all over again.
Cincinnati Jews Showed Out at the Great American Ballpark
The Jewish Community showed out at the Great American Ballpark for the Reds vs. Kansas City Royals Tuesday, June 2 filling over 550 seats across the stadium. The weather was in the 70s and spirits were high. This event marked the X annual Jewish Community Night at the Reds which was organized by staff of the Mayerson JCC.
Braiding Together Cincinnati’s Jewish & Queer Communities
Walking into the JCC’s Amberley Room for the annual Rainbow Challah Bake, I was quickly and warmly welcomed by everyone there. Some were people I knew, like the event’s organizer, Wyn Garfinkle, and many were not. But whether it was my 100th time meeting someone, or my first, I knew one thing: I was exactly where I was meant to be. The queer and Jewish communities are both spaces that pride themselves on being welcoming of others, no matter their background, and I felt that in the JCC during the event.