Do you ever feel robotic in your everyday activities? Most of my days start with the same routine. Get up, assess the damage that the pets did to the house overnight, make some coffee, and start cleaning. Every day, like clockwork, I am armed with...

(JTA) — The niece of the late Princess Diana married a Jewish fashion tycoon. Kitty Spencer, a 30-year-old model, last week wed Michael Lewis, 62, who chairs the Foschini Group, in a lavish ceremony near Rome. It was the second marriage for Lewis,...

In the past year, if you’ve found yourself spending more time at home outdoors enjoying the fresh air in an outdoor living space, you’re not alone. A 2021 report by Fixr.com found that homeowners are investing more in outdoor living than before the...

Unlike Latin, which I arguably don’t know, but am going to say this anyway, Yiddish has style. To me, the style comes not just from the incredibly humorous sounding words, but from the literal way our great-great-grandparents, great-grandparents,...

I am not an expert on dementia, and I don’t want to be.  My expertise is in policy and social justice activism. I once had an office in the state Capitol. But now, my family and I are getting a crash course in frontotemporal dementia, a rare...

How deeply do you understand your family roots? Do those roots define who you are today, or is it just the origin of your story? Are they something you wish to understand? The answer changes for everybody. For Anna (Judith Chemla), a neurotic control...

We are smack dab in the middle of summer, a time we’ve looked forward to since summer 2020. Dude, it’s hot.  I’m a huge baby in the summertime, always schvitzing like a vilda chaya. I’m a head sweater, and I don’t like how it feels or how...

Much of the content in this edition of the Jewish Light (printed paper July 28th issue) is devoted to transforming outdoor living spaces into relaxing sanctuaries. We hope we’ve piqued your interest and enticed you to watch a 30-minute video at stljewishlight.org/outdoorliving,...