Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 19, 2024
Robin Williams was not a Jew, but perhaps it was because of his lifetime friendship and professional partnership with Jewish comedy legend Billy Crystal that many people think he was indeed Jewish.
Williams, who died in 2014, embraced Jewish culture...
MARSHA SCHUMAN, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 18, 2024
My dear friend Jerri Livingston died peacefully in her sleep at home on April 3 at the age of 72. She and I had a been entwined in one another’s lives for 59 years. Once, when I asked Jerri what mattered to her, she said, “Family and Judaism were...
While the Kranzberg Arts Foundation (KAF) has programs for all the art disciplines, I’d like to focus on the visual and literary arts.
We have four art galleries as well as the outdoor “Walls Off Washington,” which feature over 25 thought provoking...
Recently I read an article about home organization. The expert suggested vacuuming in natural light to really be able to see dirt and debris, so you won’t have to go back and do touch ups. Until that moment, I had no idea going back and doing touch...
From 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, May 6 author Rabbi Jeffrey Gale will discuss his new book, “The Secret of Redemption.” This book is the sequel to the author’s first book, “The Ballad of East and West,” which tells the story of Rabbi Isaac Levin’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 18, 2024
As the St. Louis Jewish community as well as Jews throughout the world prepare to gather around the seder table to commemorate the Exodus and freedom from bondage, we cannot forget the 133 hostages who remain captive in Gaza. To seize...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Central Reform Congregation
• Published April 18, 2024
He was accustomed to the close reading of texts, but on that day he sat with eyes that had never seen before and watched words on the page before him grow legs and dance, legs became wings, and words flew off the page like pigeons off of cobblestones.
On...
Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
Student...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN & BILL MOTCHAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 17, 2024
No doubt when Passover begins at sundown Monday, April 22, thousands of St. Louis Jewish families will be marking the holiday with a seder that evening and possibly the next during the eight-day holiday.
Just as likely as the seder itself is having a...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 17, 2024
Just in time for the first night of Passover, Jewish a cappella group Six13 dropped their latest musical parody video - MATZA MIA!
If the title doesn't jump out at you, it's a not to the legendary Swedish quartet ABBA, who rocked the world of disco...
While a student at Clayton High School, Zachary Millner had two pieces of artwork chosen for the digital 2023 AP Art & Design Exhibit, which is currently online to view.
His portfolio was one of 50 chosen out of the 70,000 submitted internationally....
Abi Kornblum will star as the daughter/granddaughter in an upcoming short film about a family from the Ozarks (she cannot share the film’s title until it is released).
The daughter of Monica and the late Mike Kornblum, Abi is a senior at Parkway Central...
