The St. Louis Jewish Light is launching a new feature, Jewish Song of the Week, in which we share a quality track from Jewish Rock Radio, an online radio station, or JKids Radio, an online radio service featuring Jewish children’s music. We plan to...

The St. Louis Jewish community has known for quite a while that the Sklar Brothers are a funny duo. Now the rest of the country is finding out. Jason and Randy Sklar, twin Jewish brothers who grew up in St. Louis and graduated from Parkway North High...

Jewish leader and human-rights advocate Rosalyn Borg, who served as area director of the American Jewish Committee in St. Louis and previously Portland, Ore., died at her St. Louis home on Sunday, June 27. The cause was lung cancer, her son David Biespiel,...

A pair of Jewish comedians — one with a local following, the other, a national one — are teaming up for a pair of shows Friday, July 9 at The Gaslight Theater. Ophira Eisenberg, the host of NPR’s weekly comedy trivia show “Ask Me Another,”...

Isaac Herzog, soon to become president of Israel, is a remarkable leader who excels at building personal relationships and bridges across political, religious and social divides. The future of the Jewish people, those living in Israel and those in the...

Al Franken, the Jewish former senator from Minnesota and comedian, is coming to St. Louis. Billed as “The Only Former U.S. Senator currently on Tour Tour,” Franken will appear Sunday, Nov. 21 at The Sheldon Concert Hall. Franken spent 15 years...

The St. Louis Jewish Light had quite a night Thursday at the 40th Annual Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. The Jewish newspaper, in the weekly and biweekly newspaper divison, won five awards, which were presented by the...

A Missouri man pleaded guilty last week to threatening to assault two members of Congress, one of whom is Jewish. Kenneth R. Hubert, of Marionville in southwest Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of threatening to assault a U.S....

The PBS affiliate in Kansas City has released a new documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in the city after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis. “All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered Thursday, is now available for...

Jewish Family Services, which provides local mental health and social services, recently received a $25,000 grant from the JCA Charitable Foundation, according to a news release. Proceeds from the grant will support educational programming and health...

St. Louis Jews recently have gotten used to reading news about Israeli parliamentary elections. The one in March was the fourth in less than two years. That was the first one to produce a different outcome. On Sunday, Naftali Bennett succeeded in replacing...

The Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis supports the Jewish community in condemning anti-Semitism even though the organization choose not to participate in an interfaith press conference last week, according to the Islamic organization. The group...