Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 23, 2021
The year 1986 was not only a very good year at the movies, it also was a very good year for Jewish talent in the movies. Both the Best Actor and Best Actress awards went to Jewish people on that fateful Oscar night.
Paul Newman took home the coveted...
When I started working in the St. Louis Jewish community more than a dozen years ago, one of the first people to call and welcome me was Marci Mayer Eisen, director of the Millstone Institute and staff person for JProStl, which supports professionals...
(JTA) — Israel will not abide by any renewed Iran nuclear deal that does not entirely end the country’s capacity for fissile material enrichment, its ambassador to the United Nations said.
“For us to be safe, Iran must not be allowed to have...
Jon Schiller, Israel21c
• Published April 23, 2021
(Israel21c) An innovative optical technology that can instantly and non-invasively detect and distinguish between different types of skin cancer has been developed by an Israeli scientist at Tel Aviv University.
The new method created by Professor...
(JTA) — Lawyers for the family of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman whose killer was deemed unfit to stand trial in France, say they want to have him tried in Israel.
The idea articulated Wednesday in a statement by lawyers Francis Szpiner and Gilles-William...
We are living at a time when both parties are telling us how bad things are.
Recall that Donald Trump’s 2016 inaugural address was characterized by the media as bleak, unusually dark and focused on addressing what Trump called “American carnage,”...
Noah Adin Arnold, March 4, 2006- April 7, 2021
Noah Arnold lived a short life, having recently celebrated his 15th birthday. But like a shooting star that is quick and intense, it never leaves your memory. That was Noah.
He was a freshman at...
MONTREAL (JTA) — A top Quebec court mostly upheld a provincial law banning Jews and other religious minorities who work in public from wearing religious symbols such as yarmulkes, crucifixes and hijabs in their places of employ.
The Quebec Superior...
(JTA) — Is it possible to play Major League Baseball while being a Sabbath-observant Jew?
It’s a question that could have an answer within the next few years if Elie Kligman, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, has anything to say about it.
Kligman...
(JTA) – It only took a few days for the brand-new European Super League to collapse, and its demise can be traced to one man: Russian-Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich, who owns the British club Chelsea.
The Super League, a proposed breakaway league...
(JTA) — Hundreds of infants in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn are sick now with a common respiratory virus that typically does not circulate during the spring, raising fears as to whether the infections in those communities could again become...
Although the pandemic has taken its toll on dozens of St. Louis area businesses, it’s also spurred some new ones to open. Among them, Lefty’s Bagels, co-owned and operated by brothers-in-law, best buddies and Temple Israel congregants Scott Lefton...
