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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Aug 28, 2022; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Chaim Bloom, Chief Baseball Officer of the Boston Red Sox on the field before the game between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park.

Chaim Bloom will be the Cardinals general manager, after next season

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished September 30, 2024

The St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, Sept. 30 announced that Chaim Bloom will succeed John Mozeliak as president of baseball operations following the 2025 season. Bloom, who is Jewish, has worked for the Cardinals as an advisor since January 2024. Bloom...

Honoring Jewish architects who helped shaped St. Louis

Honoring Jewish architects who helped shaped St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 30, 2024

As St. Louisans, we walk past history every day, often without a second glance at the stories etched into the facades of our city’s buildings. But the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University is inviting us to stop, look and rethink how our city came...

More faces of Sababa

Published September 30, 2024

On Sept. 29, St. Louis celebrated arts and culture at the Sababa Jewish Arts Festival near Creve Coeur. Held at the Staenberg Family Complex, the festival featured a diverse lineup of music that engaged attendees with sounds from Jewish and global traditions. Art...

Focus on empty synagogues, not imagined antisemitic codes

Focus on empty synagogues, not imagined antisemitic codes

Published September 30, 2024

I simply could not believe the Light dedicated an entire article to the proposition that the sale of some pillows at the price of $14.88 is antisemitic coding. (“Mike Lindell says he did not intend Nazi symbolism by selling pillows for $14.88”,...

Discover how FestAbility is shattering stereotypes about disabilities this weekend

Published September 30, 2024

Now in its fifth year, FestAbility: A Celebration of Disabilities, the largest gathering by and for people with disabilities in the region and their families, returns to the Missouri History Museum on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. FestAbility...

Scotland’s first “purpose-built” synagogue, Garnethill, was completed in 1879.

Lochs and Bagels: A trip to Jewish Scotland

By Gail P. Dubov, Moment MagazinePublished September 30, 2024

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  On the eve of Yom HaShoah, I boarded a local train from Glasgow to Giffnock, a nearby suburb and home to Scotland’s largest Jewish community. For decades, the heart...

The faces of Sababa 2024

The faces of Sababa 2024

The Jewish Light StaffPublished September 29, 2024

On Sept. 29, St. Louis celebrated arts and culture at the Sababa Jewish Arts Festival near Creve Coeur. Held at the Staenberg Family Complex, the festival featured a diverse lineup of music that engaged attendees with sounds from Jewish and global traditions. Art...

‘Every vote counts’: Americans living Israel encouraged to vote in US presidential election

‘Every vote counts’: Americans living Israel encouraged to vote in US presidential election

Etgar Lefkovits, JNSPublished September 29, 2024

(JNS) Hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Israel are eligible to vote in November’s U.S. elections, including some in swing states whose votes could prove decisive in a close election, the heads of Democratic and Republican organizations in...

U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (NY-17) holds a press conference at Veterans Memorial Park in Nanuet. Friday, August 23, 2024.

Remarks on Jewish voters becomes key issue in some House races

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished September 29, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. In upstate New York, former Rep. Mondaire Jones is ready to launch a new digital ad blasting Rep. Mike Lawyer for defending...

Helen Mirren in White Bird

Helen Mirren shines in touching tale of survival, hope

Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished September 27, 2024

In “White Bird,” Helen Mirren stars as a French Jewish grandmother who survived the Shoah, recounting her youthful experience to her grandson Julian (Bryce Gheisar), a boy who is struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled from his...

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.),

Missouri congressman urges IRS to revoke tax-exempt status of nine nonprofits over alleged terror ties

JNS StaffPublished September 26, 2024

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee wrote to Daniel Werfel, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, on Tuesday calling for an investigation of nine nonprofits that he said are “fueling chaos, illegal conduct and...

Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, in the biopic ‘Lee.’ After the fall of Nazi Germany, Miller’s images documented the aftermath of the Shoah, taking photos at Dachau and other locations that were published in American publications.

How Kate Winslet’s ‘Lee’ exposes the darkest secrets of Nazi Germany

Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished September 26, 2024

Kate Winslet gives a powerful performance as war photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller whose images of concentration camps in post-war Germany helped proved the horror of the Shoah to the world, in the gripping, inspiring historical biopic “Lee.”  The...

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