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St. Louis Jewish Light
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
Bosnian cemetery
Why St. Louis still matters in Ukraine’s Jewish relief efforts
Six13’s new Passover parody drops: Bruno Mars meets matzah
Danny Cohn, Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Covenant Place III Ribbon Cutting with Harvey and Wilma Gerstein.
Local News
Bosnian cemetery
Holocaust Museum confronts the Bosnian genocide 30 years ago
Why St. Louis still matters in Ukraine’s Jewish relief efforts
Why St. Louis still matters in Ukraine’s Jewish relief efforts
Danny Cohn, Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Big night of giving: JFed celebrates $8.7M in impact, honors community leaders
Covenant Place III Ribbon Cutting with Harvey and Wilma Gerstein.
Gerstein legacy lives on: Covenant Place celebrates milestone and dedicates social hall
Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy
Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy
Thanks to all of you who attended the first annual Passover Project. It was all the brainchild of my colleague Ellen Futterman, and she rocked it.
St. Louis is getting ready for a rockin’ Passover celebration
World news
The Super 4 Seasons car wash in Spring Valley, New York. (Screenshot)
NY attorney general orders car wash to stop ripping off Jews with antisemitic ‘Passover special’
Princeton University (Flickr Commons)
Trump administration freezes research funding to Princeton amid antisemitism investigations
Chicago resident Peter Katz found stickers with Nazi symbolism on his Tesla last month. (Facebook)
A Chicagoan wanted to protest Elon Musk — and put a swastika sticker on a Jewish man’s Tesla
The scarab seal from Tel Azekah. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.
Toddler finds 3,800-year-old amulet on family trip
A can of memories: how one family’s sardine salad tells a story of survival and tradition
A can of memories: how one family’s sardine salad tells a story of survival and tradition
The "National Menorah," erected by Chabad-Lubavitch in front of the White House in Washington, Dec. 2, 2021. (Kerem Yucel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Washington, D.C., Jewish federation will distribute $180,000 to laid-off federal workers

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