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...
BY RABBI ELIZABETH HERSH
• Published October 3, 2013
I am almost without fail asked the same question every year following Yom Kippur. “Aren’t you glad the Holidays are over?” I politely respond, “We still have two more. Sukkot and Simchat Torah.” Why do so many people forget these wonderful...
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...
By Chavie Lieber, JTA
• Published October 12, 2012
(JTA) -- It’s almost ingrained in Jewish culture: how you make your stuffed cabbage depends on where your grandmother came from.
For many, the dish is served on the holiday of Simchat Torah, much like latkes are associated with Chanukah, hamentaschen...
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...
MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) - Hanukkah, O Hanukkah ... it's one of my favorite times of year -- and certainly one of the busiest!
I host several parties because you know how it goes: Aunt Jenny won't come if Uncle Oscar is in the room, and Scott isn't talking...
"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...
Home For Purim is shaping up as a nice small-budget, art-house period-piece film about a Southern Jewish family until the whiff of an Oscar nomination plunges its cast and crew into a comic frenzy in pursuit of the little gold statuette.
Director...
Filmgoers expecting Steven Spielberg's new film Munich to be another Schindler's List are in for a surprise, for they will find a much different film. While artistically, Munich is an excellent piece of filmmaking, filled with both vivid imagery and...
