Ohio

Williams sisters team up for first time in four years, lose in Cincinnati Open opening tennis match

"I thought it was fun," Serena said. "I thought it was special. We kicked off a little rust in the middle of the match and just, you know, (we were) starting to feel it."

Serena Williams and Venus Williams of the United States meet with Peyton Stearns of the United States and Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine, after their doubles match during the Cincinnati Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center, August 17, 2026.
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo, a syringe and a vial are seen in this illustration taken May 13, 2025.

US FDA says it is investigating another cyclosporiasis outbreak

The Scioto River near South Bloomfield, Ohio.

Five dead in Ohio mass drowning after failed rescue attempt of struggling swimmer

An illustrative photograph of a man wearing tefillin

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case of Ohio Jew forbidden from holding home minyan


Abortion rights advocates, Democrats score wins in US elections

Democrats and abortion rights advocates notched a string of electoral victories on Tuesday – including in conservative Ohio and Kentucky.

 Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Atlanta, Georgia, US,  May 14, 2022

Hebrew Union College to end 4 graduate programs, including 2 in Cincinnati

Rehfeld cited “financial constraints” and enrollment among the reasons for discontinuing the programs.

 The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. Under a new proposal, HUC is considering ending its rabbinical program in Cincinnati but maintaining the archives.

Ohio high school football coach resigns after players use ‘Nazi’ in play calls

In 2021 a Boston-area school was found to have used terms including “Auschwitz,” “yarmulke” and “rabbi” in its own plays for at least a decade.

 Beachwood High School is located in one of the country's most Jewish suburbs.

Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107

Although she came from what she called “the Wild West,” she was passionate about Cleveland.

Park Synagogue in Cleveland designed by Eric Mendelsohn.

Ohio school board member apologizes for giving Nazi salute at public meeting

The local federation CEO said she did not believe Zakkour “had antisemitic intent.”

 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.

Neo-Nazis picket Jewish center outside Toledo after first protesting LGBTQ event

They had come directly from picketing Toledo Love Fest, an LGBTQ event. Federation officials said it appeared that their decision to head to the Jewish community immediately after was spontaneous.

 Neo-Nazis wave swastika flags outside of Georgia synagogue this past June

Man pleads guilty to raping Ohio child who sought abortion in Indiana

Gerson Fuentes, who was the live-in boyfriend of the child's mother, confessed to raping the child in a police interview.

 Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Atlanta, Georgia, US,  May 14, 2022

Toddler dies after mother left her alone for 10 days to go on vacation

A woman in the US was arrested for murder after leaving her toddler, just a year and a half old, alone at home for 10 days while taking a vacation.

 Jailyn Candelario was just under two years old when she was left home alone for 10 days by her mother, leading to her death.

Two-year-old shot, killed pregnant mother and fetus in Ohio

The mother received an emergency C-section at the hospital that she had been transported to but her unborn son did not survive. Shortly after, the mother also perished.

 Police vehicles are seen parked outside Richneck Elementary School, where according to the police, a six-year-old boy shot and wounded a teacher, in Newport News, Virginia, U.S., January 6, 2023,

5-year-old boy swallowed 40 pieces of gum, rushed to the hospital

The doctors were able to remove the ball of gum that was blocking his intestines in a non-surgical procedure.

 Child chewing gum.