Oliver Lee Stern will become a bar mitzvah at Congregation Temple Israel on Oct. 17, 2020.
Oliver, an eighth-grade student at Ladue Middle School, is the son of Jonathan and Angela Stern of St. Louis. Oliver is the grandson of Charles and Sheryl...
Dr. Charles Moley and Lauren Friedman have announced their engagement.Charles is the son of Drs. Jeff and Kelle Moley of St. Louis and the grandson of Chuck and Kay Harbert of Creede, Colo., and Malcom and Janis Moley of New York, N.Y.Friedman is the...
Gail Beth Appleson and Guillermo Andrés Rodríguez were married on Sept. 6 in their Shrewsbury backyard, where Rabbi Howard Kaplansky, rabbi emeritus, United Hebrew Congregation, officiated. Gail is the senior writer at The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish...
By Tony Westbrook Jr.
• Published October 13, 2020
It has been 140 days since the murder of George Floyd outraged a nation.Overnight, we yet again saw protests and outcries against police brutality, systemic racism, and the murder of George Floyd popping up across America and the world. Jewish organizations...
(JTA) — After Israeli actress Gal Gadot announced this weekend that she would play the legendary Egyptian queen in a blockbuster movie, it didn’t take long for the calls of cultural appropriation to start on social media.One tweet in particular, which...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published October 12, 2020
The New Jewish Theatre has postponed performances until fall 2021 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the organization announced Monday.NJT is a program of the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis. The decision to postpone performances from J...
With the 2020 election cycle in its final stages, many issues are on the minds of people in the Jewish community. Concern about the pandemic, economic decline and racial justice issues are paramount to many. But related to all of those, and arguably just...
As the news broke recently, my phone started lighting up with messages and texts decrying the ignorance of our nation’s young people. In case you missed it, a study found that fully 36% of Millennials and Gen Z believe that fewer than 2 million Jews...
(JTA) — Louise Gluck, the American granddaughter of Hungarian Jews, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.Gluck, 77, was awarded “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published October 8, 2020
Maybe you’re like me these days. You get out of bed, stumble to the bathroom half asleep, take care of business, stare into the medicine cabinet mirror and ask yourself, “What day is it today?”Among the many things this pandemic has made difficult...
(JTA) — It feels like it has been a long time since Amy Coney Barrett’s walk from her home to the car that would take her to the White House ceremony where she would formally be announced as President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court.Since then,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 1, 2020
For as long as Sherry Salant can remember, visual art has played a huge part in her life. Her grandfather was a professional sculptor and her father, a successful art collector. Her mother was a docent at the St. Louis Art Museum.Salant remembers as a...
