Scott Bernstein is the new owner of Complete Weddings and Events of St. Louis located in Creve Coeur.
The company offers photography, videography, DJs, photo booths, coordination and lighting services for all events. Bernstein is a member of Congregation...
Margy Weisman and Roey Kruvi have joined the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School board. Weisman is an attorney and licensed CPA with AEGIS Law.
Kruvi is the interim director of Israel Education Travel Alliance at Jewish Federations of North America.
Gail Wechsler, library director of the Law Library Association of St. Louis, was the keynote speaker at the BAMSL (Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis) Pro Bono Challenge 2025.
At the event, she received the Legal Aid Recognition Award.
She...
Doorpost Glass Designs is a new company and website started by independent glass artist David Alper.
It features elevated glass Judaica, specifically mezuzahs. Customized menorahs and yads are available by request.
Alper attends Congregation Temple...
Former St. Louisan Becca Levine Graham has been promoted to campaign manager for the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City.
She was also selected to participate in the Jewish Federations of North America Executive Accelerator, a program is designed...
Stacy Lynn, a meteorologist for Spectrum News, has been promoted to the national weather team.
In addition to her St. Louis and Kansas City forecasting duties, she now forecasts for all the expanded markets, including the states of Maine, South Carolina...
On Feb. 5, the Missouri Arts Council will honor the recipients of the 2025 Missouri Arts Awards, including Sue Greenberg, Leadership in the Arts.
Since 1986, Greenberg has been the executive director of Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published January 8, 2025
If you’re anything like me, a feel-good story is exactly what you need right now — especially after the tragedy in New Orleans that started off the year. So when I heard how Aron and Jeanne Katzman’s family helped them celebrate their 65th anniversary...
Circus Harmony has announced that Evan Tomlinson Weintraub is its new artist in residence and guest director for its annual show in February at City Museum. Weintraub, a circus performer, director, choreographer and creative consultant, just finished...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 7, 2025
Myron Kinberg and Bernie Steinberg were best friends. Both were born in 1945 and grew up in University City. They met in the sixth grade at Delmar-Harvard Elementary School. They excelled at sports, especially wrestling, and attended Wesleyan University...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 7, 2025
(JTA) — Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and a Jewish activist who promoted Israeli-Palestinian coexistence and other progressive causes, died Tuesday at age 86.
The longtime resident of Manhattan’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 7, 2025
An important part of St. Louis Jewish history has resurfaced and is now for sale by a respected international dealer in used, rare and out-of-print Jewish books. Originally published in 1964, the book “The ‘Y’ Story:...
