About 10 years ago, Anna Winger was walking with her father in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin when he noticed a street sign for Varian Fry Strasse. He asked her if she knew who Fry was. She hadn’t then heard of Fry, an American journalist who led...

(JTA) — Seymour Stein, one of the most influential music executives of the 20th century, who frequently throughout his career referred to his Jewish Brooklynite roots, died at 80 on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. The cause was an unspecified...

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery in...

Lindy Drew didn’t know much about St. Louis when she moved here 10 years ago to attend Washington University. Now she has hundreds of friends, many of whom she’s photographed and written about. Her stories have also generated more than 130,000 social...

(JTA) — “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” That’s known as Hansen’s Law, named for the historian Marcus Lee Hansen, who observed that while the children of immigrants tend to run away from their ethnicity in order...

Watching the situation unfolding in Israel right now from miles and miles away, it’s honestly hard to keep my composure. For weeks, Israelis having been marching in the streets of Tel Aviv, protesting a planned judicial overhaul that would take power...

(JTA) — A matchmaker who says she has successfully paired 200 Jewish couples is the star of “Jewish Matchmaking,” a Netflix series that is set to start streaming May 3. Netflix announced the series, a spinoff of its wildly successful “Indian...

Oh, how I love a good Jewish holiday parody video. First of all, they usually are well made, with impressive production values that I appreciate. But the real win is how well these groups sing and how funny they can be while somehow staying true to the...

At 5 years old, Rachel Weinhaus was sexually assaulted by a teenage neighborhood boy in the woods near her Creve Coeur home. She told no one, not even her mother. In 2019, Weinhaus learned she was part of a $215 million class-action settlement with...

Hometown celebrity Andy Cohen is returning to St. Louis to discuss his hilarious, heartwarming, and name-dropping account of the most important year of his life and the book that came out of the experience, "The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up." Cohen...

Search the Jewish Light website for Passover desserts and you’ll find a plethora of easy recipe ideas to make for seder. Search the same words on Google and find hundreds more. But today we have a new and unique idea you might not find through a search...

Jewish families come in all shapes, sizes, and configurations. As PJ Library has grown, there is a deep commitment to selecting books that feature diverse and varied ways to be a family. The books are hopefully perceived both as mirrors and windows,...