By Rabbi Noah Arnow, Kol Rinah
• Published February 5, 2025
A job for which I am highly unqualified is music supervisor.
Music supervisors choose what songs will accompany a given scene in film or television. You have to know a wide array of musical styles and genres (I don’t), and be good at knowing just what...
By Rabbi Daniel Cohen, The Forward
• Published February 3, 2025
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We live in a world of constant movement. We travel freely, from our cars, to our homes, places of work, shopping and...
Rabbi Andrea Goldstein
• Published January 23, 2025
This week’s Torah portion, Vaera, describes the first seven of the 10 plagues that God wrought upon Egypt so that Pharaoh would heed Moses’ pleas to let our people go. After each request from Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh refuses. A plague is brought upon...
RABBI ELIZABETH HERSH
• Published January 15, 2025
Shmot is a portion of opposites. It begins with the names of Jacob’s sons who traveled to Egypt. The 11 brothers are listed by name. Furthermore, we read that the number of souls who made this journey totaled 70. Memory is crucial to the Jewish people....
By Rabbi Eliezer Finkelstein, Bais Abraham Congregation
• Published January 8, 2025
One of the main themes of Sefer Bereishit is the struggle between brothers. Cain and Hevel (Abel), Yitzchak and Yishmael, Esav and Yaakov, and Yosef and his brothers. Last week’s Parsha provides the culmination of the entire Book, with Yehudah refusing...
By Rabbi Daniel Cohen, The Forward
• Published January 6, 2025
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What’s the best thing to say to someone when visiting them during shiva, the week of Jewish mourning following a death...
By Rabbi Janine Schloss, Rabbi Educator at Temple Emanuel
• Published December 23, 2024
When I was young, my brother and I used to fight over Hanukkah gelt. This was complicated because the pieces were different sizes, so even if the number of pieces were the same, it still didn’t always seem fair.
As an adult, it always felt embarrassing...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 23, 2024
Last year, St. Louis unveiled a spectacular new addition to its holiday celebrations: the Staenberg Menorah, a towering 29-foot-tall marvel located at Kiener Plaza with the Gateway Arch towering behind it. Constructed with 250 feet of truss and lit with...
By Rabbi James Bennett, Congregation Shaare Emeth
• Published December 18, 2024
What we do and what we say matters; once we do or say something, there is often no turning back. One of life’s most important lessons is to think before we speak or act.
In reflecting on this week’s Torah portion, one cannot help but wonder how...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 17, 2024
The Festival of Lights just got a little brighter—and a whole lot creamier. Clementine's Naughty and Nice Creamery is rolling out two new Hanukkah-inspired ice cream flavors at all eight St. Louis-area parlors. If you can’t wait—or live outside...
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — This Hanukkah, the 29’ Staenberg Menorah at Kiener Plaza Park will be lit every night of the eight day holiday. The Chanukah @ The Arch celebrations, sponsored by Peoples National Bank, will feature Hanukkah light-up giveaways,...
What happens when you take a dive bar, add some dazzling outfits, a guest DJ and the St. Louis young adult Jewish community? You get LollapaJEWza, of course—the annual holiday event that’s been bringing people together for 15 years. This year, it’s...
