The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum has opened applications for the fall grant cycle of the Rubin and Gloria Feldman Family Educational Institute, which funds projects focused on the history and lessons of the Holocaust.
Grants of up to $5,000...
Avi Holzman, Staff Intern
• Published October 8, 2025
The problem sounds like something straight from the Talmud: What is the Jewish community's obligation when the roof of a historic former synagogue is destroyed by a tornado?
On May 16, Pastor Andre Downing was watching the news and preparing for...
(JTA) — A major European cosmetics firm has vowed to reexamine its Nazi-era history amid revelations that it benefited from gruesome human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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(JTA) — Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined that they had been looted from a German Jew’s collection in France during World War II.
The two paintings, believed...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 11, 2025
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum’s immersive exhibition “Hate Ends Now: The Cattle Car Experience” runs Sept. 10–14. While organizers expect strong attendance, the Museum notes that plenty of tickets remain available for Saturday,...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 9, 2025
A powerful visual and physical display begins a four-day residency on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The Holocaust Museum cattle car exhibit, “Hate Ends Now,” shares the stories of two survivors, Nate Leipeige...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 9, 2025
One afternoon while digging through the Jewish Light archives, I stumbled upon a name I didn’t recognize—Moses Mendelssohn—in a full-page story spread from 1979. What grabbed me wasn’t the name at first, but the opening line by columnist H.H....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 8, 2025
When the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum opens its doors on Sept. 28 for “Survivor Hour: Josh Schonfeld,” it won’t just be another lecture. This free community program offers a rare chance to hear how one family’s story of survival...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published September 4, 2025
(JTA) — After multiple failed attempts, Argentine police have recovered a painting that the Nazis looted from a Dutch Jewish art dealer during the Holocaust.
Dutch journalists first spotted the painting, “Portrait of a Lady” by Giuseppe Ghislandi,...
(JTA) — Returning to Chicago from an artist residency in Maine, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González surveyed the local Jewish museum scene and found it wanting.
“When I came back to Chicago, I wanted to get involved with the ‘Jewish Museum of Chicago,’...
A late-Baroque portrait stolen from a Jewish arts dealer in Europe by the Nazis during World War II has surfaced in Argentina, having been featured in an online real-estate ad, a Dutch newspaper reported Monday.
“Portrait of a Lady” by Vittore...
(JNS) -- The Imperial War Museum, a British national institution tasked with recording all the United Kingdom’s military conflicts since 1914, has doubled down on an information board that according to critics falsely suggested that the Nazis targeted...
