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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 History

Jewish astrologer Lorelai Kude in her Berkeley home, July 17, 2019 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)

Time to rethink everything you’ve been told about Jews and astrology

LORELAI KUDE and DAVID A.M. WILENSKYPublished July 11, 2021

For most Jews, the entirety of Jewish belief about astrology is based on a single line in the Talmud: ein mazal l’Yisrael — there is no astrological sign for the People of Israel. It’s not real, we’ve been taught, and it’s not meant for...

Do you know this Jew? He was once an adorable and very smart child star.

RON KAMPEAS, JTAPublished July 9, 2021

He lisped. He wore an intense and engaged stare in photos. And he knew just about everything. Joel Kupperman, was the adorable child star who helped burnish the stereotype of the brainy Jew as a panelist on the 1940s show “Quiz Kids.” “A fairly...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew, including pilot Michel Bacos (left), coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 1976. Credit: Moshe Milner/Israel Government Press Office.

Remembering the French pilot who stayed with his Jewish passengers at Entebbe

Published July 7, 2021
Air France pilot Michael Bacos, whose plane from Israel was hijacked to Uganda, reminds us that the anti-Semitism is a choice that the righteous can choose to reject.
The front page of the July 7, 1976 St. Louis Jewish Light featured prominent coverage of the Entebbe rescue.

The enduring message of the Entebbe rescue

By DANIEL S. MARIASCHIN, JEWISH NEWS SERVICEPublished July 7, 2021
The rescue instilled pride in Israel among Jews worldwide.
St. Louis’ remarkable stories from the Holocaust: Jacques Braitberg

St. Louis’ remarkable stories from the Holocaust: Jacques Braitberg

Published July 6, 2021

Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...

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