WASHINGTON (JTA) — After three Israeli elections in the course of 12 months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz have finally signed a deal to create a unity government that could last 36 months.From a substantive perspective,...
I never thought half birthdays meant anything until I turned 17½ on April 1. It had meaning because this is when I am legally allowed to register to vote in Missouri. The only problem is, I don’t know if I’ll get to vote this November.Believe it...
In August 2018, I began a yearlong program called the High School Leadership Program at Cultural Leadership, an organization that focuses on understanding cultural differences and injustices through Jewish and African American lenses. Over the course...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 23, 2020
Like many of us, David and Randi Schenberg have been ordering groceries online. Recently, when David Schenberg went to pick up the family’s order from Sam’s Club, he noticed a bag in his cart that he didn’t recognize. Turns out it was a 25-pound...
Just a few weeks ago, most Americans were not familiar with the concept of Zoombombing. But as the COVID-19 pandemic forced many business, community and even social meetings online, Zoom increasingly became the platform of choice for videoconferencing....
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 21, 2020
It’s a rite of passage most every high school senior looks forward to, but because of the coronavirus pandemic senior proms at high schools across the country were not to be this year. But that didn’t stop Taylor Stern.The Parkway Central senior sent...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 14, 2020
Ask Jane Weinhaus what she wants now, after 20 days in the hospital suffering with COVID-19, including nine days on a ventilator, and her answer is simple: “I want to return to work as soon as I can.”Of course, her work as a preschool teacher at Temple...
It’s being called a social recession. A near collapse in human contact that is particularly hard on people who are most vulnerable to isolation and loneliness, which includes many older adults. The necessary steps taken to contain the coronavirus have...
I did not grow up with seders.By the time I became a Jew by choice, I was in my fifties. I had been to a few seders, hosted by friends whose children and grandchildren turned them into raucous affairs. I also attended one seder that was conducted...
Editor’s note: This column by Dr. James Hinrichs was made possible thanks to the generosity of Dr. Jonathan Root, Dr. Norman Druck and Galia Movitz. Thank you for your kind responses to my article last month in the Jewish Light on COVID-19. The situation...
By Jordan Eisen, Sophomore, Parkway North
• Published April 12, 2020
COVID-19 has affected everyone in the world in one way or another, and now the United States is the epicenter of the pandemic. The New York Times has reported that approximately 95 percent of Americans are on lockdown. Many of those affected include...
Like many publications, the nonprofit St. Louis Jewish Light has seen a rapid decline in advertising since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Light will start publishing a print edition every other week through May. On alternate weeks,...
