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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

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Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.

Forest Park is turns 150. Its Jewish history is everywhere.

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 29, 2026

  I've taken my kids sledding on Art Hill. I've walked the Zoo, wandered the trails and, years ago, even rode a Forest Park Century, circling the park roughly 17 times to complete a 100-mile ride. Like generations of St. Louisans, I've...

WashU professor explores antisemitism through family history

WashU professor explores antisemitism through family history

Published June 9, 2026

  Flora Cassen has released a new book, “Stained Glass: A Reflective History of Antisemitism.” It traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe to the aftermath of the Holocaust and into the present....

A Lower East Side pickle man serves customers. Photo by Pickled City: The Story of New York Pickles

How Jews turned pickles into a personality trait

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished May 12, 2026

  This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The Pickled City: The Story of New York Pickles By Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder Chronicle Books,...

The physicist who says Judaism explains what science can’t

The physicist who says Judaism explains what science can’t

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 9, 2026

A scientist who spent decades studying how the world works says Judaism helped him understand why it matters. That realization eventually led Eduard Shyfrin back to Jewish learning and to writing about what he believes Jewish tradition still has to...

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

The rabbi who tried to reinvent Judaism — before anyone was ready

Menachem Wecker, Jewish News SyndicatePublished March 26, 2026

Jenna Weissman Joselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her book on the American “embrace” of the Ten Commandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the Jewish Lives biography series, a Yale...

Claire Saffitz

Five Questions with Claire Saffitz

Bill Motchan, Contributing WriterPublished March 23, 2026

  Claire Saffitz loves desserts. That’s immediately evident from the title of the St. Louis native’s first book: “Dessert Person.” Saffitz, 39, is now a New York-based recipe developer, food host and dessert chef. She was recently...

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