The Maryville University Hillel has hired a recent UCLA graduate as its new manager. Joey Abeles replaces Erin Schreiber, who served as the founding manager of the college’s Jewish student life organization, which launched in 2015. Abeles, who...

Shira Berkowitz serves as president of the board of MaTovu, an inclusive Jewish space in the Botanical Heights neighborhood, and as co-director of PROMO, a Missouri organization that advocates for LGBTQ equality. Can you describe what you do at MaTovu? I’m...

You won’t find many Jews from Brooklyn in southern Missouri between Willow Springs and Mountain View, about three hours southwest of St. Louis. In fact, you won’t find many people between those towns of about 2,000 people each. That’s not...

(Israel21C) — Ravit Ram Bar-Dea, co-founder and CEO of digital health startup Well-Beat, will represent Israel in a global contest to be held in Dubai in October, after she won first place in the TiE Women Entrepreneurship Competition held for the...

Many organizations work to defuse tensions and promote understanding between Israel’s 74% Jewish majority and 21% minority Arab population. But few address the big divide between secular Jews and the 13% minority of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews. A...

The end of the Jewish harvest festival, Sukkot, is near. The annual holiday, when Jews build temporary huts known as sukkahs and eat, celebrate and in some cases, sleep under them, ends tomorrow night, Sept. 27. Many Jews throughout St. Louis built...

Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from St. Louis, was among the Democrats who voted against a bill Thursday to provide $1 billion in funding to Israel for its Iron Dome missile defense system. In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Bush described Israel as an apartheid...

It's day three of Sukkot. Jews around St. Louis are eating meals in their sukkahs while enjoying the sunny, 70 degree weather. We have been asking local sukkah builders to share their photos with us. Check out our latest gallery below. And...

Shemini Atzeret, followed by Simchat Torah, begins next Monday, Sept. 27 and concludes after nightfall Sept. 29. Simchat Torah celebrates the conclusion of reading the Torah over the past year, followed by the beginning of a new round of Torah reading. To...

Given the ongoing concerns about COVID-19 and the fact that gathering outdoors is considered safer than indoors, Sukkot and its huts have provided the perfect circumstances for celebrations. Plenty of St. Louis Jews built sukkahs this year — some...

Lenny Kohn, co-owner of Kohn’s Kosher Deli, has been busy. That’s not only because of all the Jewish holidays in September but also because the St. Louis Cardinals’ regular season is nearing its end as the Blues are preparing to take the ice. (With...