“The Messier Side of Parenting” introduces readers to Taryn Goldstein, 43, a St. Louis Jewish mother of four sons, ranging in age from 9 to 15. In her video blog, Goldstein will offer her no-holds-barred take on parenting, with topics ranging from...
St. Luke’s COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at the Chesterfield Mall is now accepting walk-ins. Appointments are still encouraged ahead of time, and are available through lukesvaccine.com.
St. Luke’s is administering the Pfizer vaccine, which is available...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2021
When Fran Zellinger was growing up, she watched TV on a black-and-white set and talked to friends using a dial phone. Now she’s a Zoom veteran. That’s why she’s enthusiastic about a new program called Jewish Senior Connection, which takes full advantage...
RABBI BEN NEWMAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 26, 2021
Food that is awful; junk, trash; anything disgusting, even loathsome (Yiddish כאַזער, from Heb.חזיר “khazir,” pig).
Example – “Ben, before going to sleep, could you please clean up all that chazerai?”
Jon Schiller, Israel21c
• Published April 23, 2021
(Israel21c) An innovative optical technology that can instantly and non-invasively detect and distinguish between different types of skin cancer has been developed by an Israeli scientist at Tel Aviv University.
The new method created by Professor...
(JTA) — Hundreds of infants in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn are sick now with a common respiratory virus that typically does not circulate during the spring, raising fears as to whether the infections in those communities could again become...
(JTA) — Last year at this time, the message out of Jewish summer camps was one of doom and gloom.
In April 2020, the Union for Reform Judaism announced that COVID would force a closure of its camps for the summer, affecting some 10,000 kids. In...
BY RABBI BEN NEWMAN, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 12, 2021
LuftmenschLuftmensch: Literally, “air person”.Someone whose head is in the clouds, usually concerned with intellectual or artistic pursuits while being oblivious to and out of touch with this-worldly concerns like earning a living. Usually refers...
BY LORELIAI KUDE, SPECIAL FOR THE THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 12, 2021
A version of this column originally appeared at jpost.com and is reprinted with permission.IYAR 5781: LIGHTING THE WAY TO SOUL-HEALINGThis is the month we count the Omer, repairing and building up inner soul characteristics which generates a Divine healing...
Yiddish has always been a fun mystery to me.The words my grandparents would say always sounded funny, and I loved trying to say them when I was a kid. I've come to learn that Yiddish is a hybrid language combining German, Herbrew, and Araamic with a dash...
RACHEL BRAY-SPEZIA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 30, 2021
Getting pregnant with my son Wolfie wasn’t the easiest. We had to employ several reproductive medical treatments, medications and procedures. Ultimately, I did have a healthy and successful pregnancy after a family donated their remaining frozen embryos...
This story originally appeared on Kveller, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish parenting site.Had I only gotten out of hosting last year’s seder, dayenu! But here we are, another pandemic Passover, which begins this year at sundown on Saturday, March 27 and...
