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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

Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

Gabe FriedmanPublished April 16, 2021

(JTA) — Steven Spielberg has launched a film foundation called Jewish Story Partners to fund documentaries that “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.” It’s funded by the Righteous Persons...

Your Sunday morning cup of coffee is about to transform. Here's why.

Your Sunday morning cup of coffee is about to transform. Here’s why.

Naama Barak, Israel21c.orgPublished April 16, 2021

To make it into your fancy cup, specialty coffee undergoes a long, arduous and often continent-crossing journey during which the beans must be maintained at just the right levels of humidity and look absolutely flawless. That’s no easy feat,...

Eli Timoner stands with his family, including future rabbi Rachel Timoner, on a plane from the airline he founded. (Courtesy of Rachel Timoner)

My father’s lesson: Jews must value labor even when they become management

Rabbi Rachel Timoner Published April 16, 2021

(JTA) — Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none of us knew or remembered. In the 1960s, when he was running a regional roofing company in Florida that became a multistate, multimillion-dollar...

Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera)

2 more historians quit Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

Cnaan LiphshizPublished April 16, 2021

(JTA) — Two more members quit the board of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in protest after the government appointed a right-wing politician to serve on it. Following the resignation of Jewish philosopher Stanislaw Krajewski on Wednesday,...

A sign reads "I Believe" at a #MeToo gathering.

For #MeToo transgressors, the only cure is banishment

Avigayil HalpernPublished April 15, 2021

Text Messages is a column sharing wisdom from the weekly Torah portion produced with The Jewish Week.  (JTA) — In the years following the reckonings with sexual harassment and assault prompted by the #MeToo movement, there has been debate over...

How Pete Davidson turned my head and made me a fan with one role in a Judd Apatow film

How Pete Davidson turned my head and made me a fan with one role in a Judd Apatow film

Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 15, 2021

Up until Judd Apatow's "The King of Staten Island" came out in the summer of 2020, I didn't care for Pete Davidson that much. There he was, all over the poster, shirtless and covered in tattoos with his hands in the air as if to say, "here I am, take...

A Yeshiva University student wears a face mask on the grounds of the university in New York City, March 4, 2020.

Yeshiva University plans to eliminate in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely

Shira HanauPublished April 15, 2021

(JTA) — Yeshiva University is planning to eliminate its in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely, making what was at first a pandemic-induced measure a permanent one. The change was first reported by the YU Commentator, one of the university’s...

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion tried to persuade Albert Einstein to serve as Israel’s second president.

This week in Israeli history: April 15-21

Center for Israel EducationPublished April 15, 2021

April 15, 1945 — Bergen-Belsen Is Liberated The British 11th Armored Division liberates the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank is among an estimated 50,000 Jews and others who die in the final two years of World War II. About...

Today's Jewish Family Planner

Today’s Jewish Family Planner

Published April 15, 2021

Thanks to the global health pandemic, many parents have been hunkered down at home with their kids for what may seem like an eternity. So, how does a daily reminder from your friends at the Jewish Light, about all the fun things there are to do around...

Denver City Hall, Denver, Co. (Israeli-American Council)

These landmarks across the US lit up blue and white for Israel’s Independence Day

Ron KampeasPublished April 15, 2021

(JTA) — Landmarks in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other major U.S. cities lit up in the blue and white colors of Israel to mark that nation’s Independence Day on Wednesday night. Chapters of the Israeli-American Council, an advocacy and...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Brussels, April 14, 2021.

Antony Blinken expects other countries to sign onto Abraham Accords this year

Ron KampeasPublished April 15, 2021

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he anticipates more normalization agreements for Israel in the next year. Blinken spoke Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., at the Israeli Embassy’s virtual celebration of that nation’s...

How to see Michael Aloni from Shtisel, as he headlines virtual fan event

How to see Michael Aloni from Shtisel, as he headlines virtual fan event

JORDAN PALMERPublished April 15, 2021

As the star continues to rise around Israeli actor Michael Aloni, thanks to his role as Akiva in the hit Netflix show Shtisel, he is not forgetting to use if fame to help others, which is why so many confirm he is the mensch he appears to be. Aloni...

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