The recent rocket attacks fired at Israeli citizens shocked and horrified us all.  Indiscriminate attacks on civilians are the very essence of terrorism, and we are at a critical moment in time where Israel, facing existential threats on...

Missouri could soon have a tax credit program that would fund scholarships for students to attend private institutions, such as Jewish day schools. But not everyone in the St. Louis Jewish community supports the legislation. The Missouri Empowerment...

A suspect in the murder of Barbara Goodkin, a St. Louis Jewish woman, was arrested Monday morning in South Carolina, the Chester County Sheriff’s office announced. More than 300 law enforcement officers, on the seventh day of a manhunt, surrounded...

Jewish Federation of St. Louis and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum are among the organizations providing funding for a group of St. Louis area investigators to travel to South Carolina and interview a suspect in the recent murder of Barbara...

Robert Koritz, who plays in a Grateful Dead tribute band and chairs the Camp Sabra committee, knows something about Jews and the Grateful Dead. So does the latest guest on Koritz’s podcast, The Music Plays The Band. Cris Jacobs, an Americana-soul...

In fall 2019, Barbara Goodkin enrolled in a course to become a docent at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The staff and volunteers knew there would be only a short window after the class ended for the docents to begin providing tours...

The St. Louis Cardinals haven’t had many slumps over the last decade. Filmmaker Michael Carnick has.  Born with a rare condition similar to muscular dystrophy that keeps him confined to a wheelchair, Carnick, in 2012, was forced to spend about...

Maxine Mirowitz is supposed to travel May 24 to Israel to visit her son’s family. But she has resigned herself to the possibility that the trip, for the third time in the last year, may be canceled. The first two times it was because of the COVID-19...

For about 75 former St. Louisans now living in Israel, a WhatsApp group allows the immigrants to learn when someone from their former Jewish community has died or gotten married. During the recent fighting between Hamas and Israel, it’s provided...

The Missouri House passed a bill Thursday containing a provision requiring employers to provide reasonable workplace safety accommodations and allow unpaid leave to survivors of domestic or sexual violence. The Victims Economic Security and Safety...