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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
St. Louis Jews asked Missouri for security funding. Five months later, it was vetoed.
East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, recalled yearbooks featuring an image of baby Adolf Hitler. (Google Streetview/Bettmann/Getty Images Contributor)
From left: Barbara Shamir, Amos Shamir, Marsha Birenbaum
Members of the CRC City Slickers at a recent Inter-Congregational Softball League game.
Frank Ginsberg
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St. Louis Jews asked Missouri for security funding. Five months later, it was vetoed.
St. Louis Jews asked Missouri for security funding. Five months later, it was vetoed.
Frances Levine
A St. Louis woman just won one of aviation’s most prestigious awards
From left: Barbara Shamir, Amos Shamir, Marsha Birenbaum
How one question from a St. Louis traveler changed Jewish life in Cuba
Members of the CRC City Slickers at a recent Inter-Congregational Softball League game.
Play Ball, Rabbi: Inside St. Louis’ 30-year inter-congregational softball league
World news
East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, recalled yearbooks featuring an image of baby Adolf Hitler. (Google Streetview/Bettmann/Getty Images Contributor)
Hitler showed up in the baby photos section of a middle school yearbook
Chaplain Scott Klein with two Jewish soldiers at Fort Bragg. Photo by Benyamin Cohen
The Army’s only airborne rabbi finds his congregation wherever he lands
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (front left) speaks during a signing ceremony hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (center, back) in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Lebanon, Israel sign ‘framework agreement’ to end hostilities
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 28: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends the 2026 Pride March in New York City. (TheStewartofNY/Getty Images)
Mamdani says he cannot support Israel as a Jewish state.
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St. Louis Jews asked Missouri for security funding. Five months later, it was vetoed.

St. Louis Jews asked Missouri for security funding. Five months later, it was vetoed.

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Frances Levine

A St. Louis woman just won one of aviation's most prestigious awards

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Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.

Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.

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From left: Barbara Shamir, Amos Shamir, Marsha Birenbaum

How one question from a St. Louis traveler changed Jewish life in Cuba

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Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.
Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.
Rabbi Naftali Schiff, left, and Michael Calvin, co-authors of the book "Miracle." (Jacob Gersch photography)
Fifty-one Jewish boys were led into Auschwitz’s gas chamber. Then something unbelievable happened.
A St. Louis Holocaust survivor spent decades building this collection. After his death, it became a memorial.
A St. Louis Holocaust survivor spent decades building this collection. After his death, it became a memorial.
Collin Littlfield, as Fiddler, and E. Scott Levin as Tevye.
Big voices, big ideas merge in ‘Fiddler’ performed as opera
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Harir-Dierk Engagement
Harir-Dierk Engagement
Deleshowitz Wedding
Deleshowitz Wedding
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Sports-loving Jeran Freistein marks his bar mitzvah
Birth: Ilana Jean Brassell
Birth: Ilana Jean Brassell

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Whatever happened to Abe Sokolik's Kosher Meat Market?
Brad Hartman is executive chef of 613 Catering at the Jewish Community Center.
We asked Jewish St. Louis what they wanted from Katz's.  Then we learned Katz’s was coming. 
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