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

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Jewish Women's Archive

Danielle, left, and Galeet Dardashti as children. Photo courtesy of Galeet Dardashti.

Listen Now! The very Jewish story behind the new podcast “The Nightingale of Iran”

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 22, 2024

The St. Louis Jewish Light is proud to announce the continuation of our partnership with the JWA. Together, we will bring many parts of the JWA collection to St. Louis readers, as well as promote the “Can We Talk?” podcast by sharing both current...

Listen Now: Voices of resilience from Israels front lines

Listen Now: Voices of resilience from Israel’s front lines

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 5, 2024

The St. Louis Jewish Light is proud to announce the continuation of our partnership with the JWA. Together, we will bring many parts of the JWA collection to St. Louis readers, as well as promote the “Can We Talk?” podcast by sharing both current...

Collage by Judy Goldstein.

Confronting the Jewish mother stereotype

Clara Sorkin, Special To The Jewish LightPublished July 12, 2023

“Mama” was the first word I ever uttered, same as billions of other babies before and after me. I hid behind her legs and pulled on her dress when I was feeling shy. I apologized for leaving tear-drop stains on her shirt, and went back to crying...

A depiction of Queen Esther. Photo: Wikimedia Commons  

Understanding and appreciating the amazing story of Queen Esther

By Sidnie White Crawford and Updated by Joshua Aaron AlfaroPublished February 24, 2023

In the biblical book named after her, Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction when the court official Haman persuades the...

New York Post article about Ezrat Nashim from March 14, 1972. Courtesy of Leora Fishman.

“All of us had unbelievable chutzpah.” The true story of the women who helped change Conservative Judaism

Published April 4, 2022

Fifty years ago, a group of young Jewish women piled into two cars and drove to upstate New York to crash the annual meeting of the all-male Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement. They called themselves Ezrat Nashim and they had a set of demands...

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