Behar and Behukotai, the last parashiyot of the book of Leviticus, outline a series of agricultural and economic laws and conclude with a series of conditional blessings, if we remain faithful to the Covenant, and curses, if we do not.
These laws...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 17, 2014
No one can deny the enormous, multi-decade contributions that Jews have made to American musical theater and the classic American songbook.
On the topic of Jews in Music, Darryl Lyman’s book “Great Jews in Music” (Jonathan David Publishers,...
Nathan Perlstein, died October 12, 2014. Beloved husband of the late Estelle Kutten Perlstein and the late Janet Alper Perlstein; dear father and father-in-law of the late Gregory Perlstein of Kansas City, Kan., Madelon (the late Andrew) Scallet...
Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 21, 2014
For several years, as Memorial Day approaches, I have wanted to write about my University City neighbor, Dr. Eric Berla, who flew medevac helicopters for the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, two very interesting and dangerous years...
NOT IN MY WILDEST DREAMS 50 YEARS AGO could I imagine a celebration of the Jewish Light’s half-century of service to the community as an independent Jewish newspaper. Back then, we were new to the community, I was an untested journalist, and no...
Almost every week a child is shot in St. Louis, often making the front page of the local paper. Gunshot victims are routinely admitted to the hospital right next door to my home. This is the community where I live.
Emergency room doctors urge us...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 5, 2012
Demographic, cultural and political changes are reshaping Israeli society. As Israel begins its 75th year of existence, what some call judiciary reform is a coup d'etat for others. An agreed-upon plan for Israel's next 25 years seems harder than ever...
David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 16, 2011
Need a plumber? A driving instructor? A ride to Chicago? How about a pair of roller blades or a gently used keyboard?
Now it's all in one location.
"Whenever I've posted anything, I've always gotten lots of responses," said Debby Schuman. "I'm...
SAN FRANCISCO — Rabbi Israel Dresner, 81, says he's the most arrested rabbi in America.
At least that was the case in the 1960s, he says, when Dresner was one of dozens of rabbis who answered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for clergy...
"Thanks for providing me with such an amazing summer," Elizabeth Gartenberg, a junior at Miami of Ohio University, told Partnership 2000 upon her return from Israel this summer. At the end of June, Gartenberg and four other students left St. Louis...
