By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published June 20, 2019
Finding love at any age is worth celebrating but finding love later in life, after previous loves, losses and the growing pains of life, can be truly uplifting. At least that’s how I felt after spending time with Susan Fadem and Richard Andersen, who...
By Kayla Steinberg, Staff Writer
• Published June 20, 2019
Our hockey team isn’t the only Blues group in St. Louis: Israeli-born guitarist, composer and producer Ori Naftaly and his band, Southern Avenue, are bringing their soul-blues blend to the Old Rock House on Thursday, June 27. The Memphis-based quartet...
Canopied by a grove of redwoods and sequoias, longtime partners Susan Fadem and Richard Andersen recently exchanged wedding vows at Hoyt Arboretum, a “living museum of trees” in Portland, Ore.Susan’s two daughters, who had not lived in the same...
Congregation B'nai Amoona clergy and members became the latest St. Louisans to offer a take on Laura Branigan's song "Gloria," which became the St. Louis Blues' victory anthem en route to winning the Stanley Cup. What made the Conservative congregation's...
By Burton Boxerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 14, 2019
The most recent biography in Yale University’s Jewish Lives series is “Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures,”written by Adina Hoffman, an award-winning essayist and biographer and former film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem...
Truth, immigration, loveIn any given week, numerous email pitches come my way, but here’s one from last week I couldn’t resist:Hello! I’m a St. Louis native, Solomon Schechter graduate and B’nai Amoona member. I’m based in Los Angeles, but I’m...
Randy Benjamin Prywitch and Annie Leigh Dreyer are engaged to be married. Randy is the son of Audrey and Rick Prywitch of Chesterfield. His grandparents are Marvin and Shirley Prywitch of Chesterfield, Ruth Randolph of Miami and the late Robert Krohngold...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 12, 2019
For its 101stseason opener, the Muny selected “Guys and Dolls,” considered by many to be the best American musical comedy of all time, whose fame was enhanced by a film based on the Broadway show.Unveiling state-of-the-art renovations, including a...
Abbie Strauss could hardly contain her excitement when talking about Rhythm ‘N’ Ruach, a parent-child Jewish music program created in St. Louis by Shelley Dean. Last August, Strauss was among the first class of instructors to undergo an intensive,...
History 101For those unfamiliar, Juneteenth is an annual observance to remember when Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas — and more generally in the remote areas of former Confederate States...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 30, 2019
Ben Ferencz has gotten a close look at crimes against humanity over the last century. In fact, he helped to define what the phrase means by serving as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazis following World War II. And despite his familiarity with...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 30, 2019
Mossad, Israel’s legendary and widely admired intelligence agency, has had a long history of astonishing successes in international intrigue, including planting spies in enemy nations; using a former Nazi officer as a double agent and consciously burnishing...
