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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

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)

Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old former concentration camp guard deported from US

CNAAN LIPHSHIZPublished April 22, 2021

(JTA) — German prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to prosecute a 95-year-old man who was deported from the United States on suspicion of involvement in Nazi war crimes. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Celle, in northern Germany,...

Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort)

Museum opened at one of Holland’s most infamous Nazi camps

CNAAN LIPHSHIZPublished April 22, 2021

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte inaugurated a museum on the former grounds of one of the Netherlands’ most infamous Nazi camps 80 years after its construction. National Monument Camp Amersfoort is a large, underground and dark...

Brooklyn man, 19, charged with breaking into Capitol on Jan. 6

Andrew Silow-CarrollPublished April 22, 2021

(JTA) — The FBI has charged a 19-year-old Brooklyn man for breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Dovid Schwartzberg confessed to breaking into the building along with the pro-Trump mob and recording several videos. A tipster...

Photo: Julien Panie

The Jewish Netflix show you haven’t heard about yet

Irene Katz Connelly, Forward.comPublished April 22, 2021

“Family Business,” Netflix’s latest and most valiant stab at the Jewish sitcom, is many things. It’s a sort-of-kind-of compelling portrait of a family in crisis. It’s a confused comment on the current state of French Jewry. It is, depending...

Deni Avdija’s rookie season ends early with ankle injury

Emily BurackPublished April 22, 2021

(JTA) — Israeli Deni Avdija’s up-and-down rookie season in the NBA will end early: The Washington Wizards forward suffered an ankle injury Wednesday night. Late in the second quarter in a home game against the Golden State Warriors, Avdija fell...

Studying, teaching, family pursuits top rabbis’ post-retirement wishes

Studying, teaching, family pursuits top rabbis’ post-retirement wishes

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished April 22, 2021

What are you looking forward to when you retire from the rabbinate? That’s the question we posed to several St. Louis area rabbis. Here’s what they told us: Rabbi Noah Arnow, Kol Rinah, age 41:  Although retirement feels rather distant...

Jeffrey Stiffman is Rabbi Emeritus at Congregation Shaare Emeth

What does retirement look like for St. Louis rabbis?

Eric Berger, Associate EditorPublished April 22, 2021

In the mid ’90s, when Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman served as chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) ethics committee, the Reform Jewish group faced a quandary: What do you do when a retiring rabbi sticks around too long? “There...

Enzi Tanner is the community safety organizer for Jewish Community Action, a social justice group in Minnesota. (Tanner via TC Jewfolk)

For social justice-oriented Jews in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin’s conviction represents a beginning, not an end

LONNY GOLDSMITH, TC JewfolkPublished April 21, 2021

(TC Jewfolk via JTA) — Enzi Tanner didn’t watch the trial of Derek Chauvin. Even as the jury returned guilty verdicts Tuesday afternoon on all three counts against the former Minneapolis police officer — second-degree murder, third-degree...

What is Foolish Baseball? Find out on the latest 'Field of Vision'

What is Foolish Baseball? Find out on the latest ‘Field of Vision’

Alec Baris, Digital Content ManagerPublished April 21, 2021

If you’re a baseball nerd, you’ll love the latest episode of “Field of Vision Sports – Fantasy Football & Baseball Podcast.” Jordan Eisen, a junior at Parkway North High School, had an exclusive interview with Bailey, the mastermind behind Foolish...

(Flickr Commons/JTA Montage)

A House bill on Israel is flawed, but not worth a Jewish civil war

Published April 21, 2021

(JTA) — In the partisan changeover that resulted from the 2020 U.S. elections, there were bound to be some tests and challenges for those of us who identify within the broad spectrum of “pro-Israel.” The first is now upon us: a proposed bill emerging...

Images from 'Mank' and 'The Irishman.' Photos: Netflix

Why ‘Mank’ will suffer the same Oscar fate as Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’

Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 21, 2021

When the Academy Award nominations were announced last month, David Fincher's "Mank" gathered the most of any film at 10, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Gary Oldman) and Best Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried). One would think that...

In Congress, bipartisan support grows for bills backing expanded Israeli-Arab ties

Ron KampeasPublished April 21, 2021

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top Democratic and Republican lawmakers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee have joined a bill that  supports the expansion of normalization agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It’s a sign of increasing...

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