Members of the Jewish community from across St. Louis joined together on Sunday for the 2018 St. Louis Pride Parade. The parade drew thousands of participants — including a variety of groups from the Jewish community — to Market Street to join in...
(JTA) — “Drunk History” is a popular Comedy Central show in which stories from history are recounted by narrators who are, as the title implies, under the influence.The latest episode, set to air Tuesday night, includes a telling of the hunt for...
Before I saw any of Angel Brame’s work, the premise of her show in and of itself intrigued me. The exhibition, titled “One Per Day: A Year of Small Decisions”, on view at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Ill., features 365 small ceramic vessels. Brame...
What is your favorite St. Louis Cardinals memory? Have you or a loved one been dealing with mild to moderate dementia? What does the baseball term “can of corn” refer to and where did it originate? What these questions have in common is the...
Sari Cornfeld, daughter of Marcy and Rick Cornfeld of Creve Coeur, and Daniel Levy, son of Marjie and Dr. Robert Levy of Creve Coeur, have announced their engagement.Sari is the granddaughter of the late Dr. Marlin and Goldie Jackoway and Dave and the...
Retirement community developer Allegro considers its latest location, in Richmond Heights, to be a bit of a homecoming. For two decades, Allegro has managed 17 properties in three states from its headquarters in Clayton. But the Richmond Heights complex...
At the Movies and on Netflix: “Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom” is the fourth sequel since “Jurassic Park,” the 1993 STEVEN SPIELBERG blockbuster, posited that dinosaurs could be brought back from extinction by using their ancient DNA. The...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 14, 2018
Israelis are sensitive about references to the Holocaust as a basis for the international recognition of a Jewish State at the United Nations in 1947. But one cannot doubt the relationship between the period before and during the Holocaust when Jews were...
By Sam Mosher, Staff Writer
• Published June 14, 2018
Edo Rosenblith grew up seeing his dad paint. It made art accessible and understandable to him, and this exposure made him want to be an artist himself.“His paintings were all over our house,” he said with a smile. “Art was demystified to me. I remember...
I've always been a sucker for a good David and Goliath story. In this modern-day version, think of Goliath as big-time baseball. As for David, the underdog, let’s call him Michael Wielansky, a 2015 Ladue high grad who was drafted last week by the 2017...
Families gathered in Millennium Park on Friday, June 8, for the annual summer Intergenerational Family Shabbat Picnic. Sponsored by PJ Library, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis Women’s Philanthropy and The J’s Family Center, the event was a night...
The Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis and other local faith groups organized a vigil on June 6, 2018, the 79-year-anniversary of when the M.S. St. Louis, a ship carrying refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, was forced to return to Europe after...
