Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 17, 2023
United Hebrew Congregation hosted the 2023 Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance ceremony on April 16. It marked the first in-person gathering since the pre-Covid 2019 Yom HaShoah.
During the ceremony, survivors and descendants lit candles in memory of...
2022 marks the 13th year of the Jewish Light's Unsung Heroes event.
This year we are thrilled to honor six individuals and three groups to be awarded for their time, service and commitment to the St. Louis Jewish community.
Hundreds attended the...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 18, 2022
After a two-year COVID hiatus, the Home Depot Chanukah Experience is back! On Sunday, nearly 500 kids and their family members built their own menorahs and noshed on latkes. The event, which is held by Home Depot and Chabad of Greater St. Louis, originated...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 15, 2022
Hanukkah storytelling returned to the Schnucks Ladue Crossing shopping center on Dec. 14 after a two-year COVID hiatus.
A large gathering heard the Hanukkah story and songs from Rabbi Schmuel Miller, head of school at H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy, with...
ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published November 10, 2022
Over the summer, Gracie May, a junior at Lindenwood University and a member of United Hebrew Congregation, went on Birthright trip with about 30 others college students. It was the second time she had been to Israel. The first also was a trip with her...
ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published October 27, 2022
Chances are, if your parent is a rabbi you will have visited Israel at least once before age 16. Lila Goldstein, whose mother is Rabbi Andrea Goldstein of Congregation Shaare Emeth, had been to Israel twice (once when she was 5, and once in middle school)...
ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published October 7, 2022
Celia Weingart, 17, a senior at Parkway North High School, visited Israel for the first time this summer as part of NCSY, through its four-week The Jewish Journey program. The group of 50 she went with were mainly Midwesterners, coming primarily from...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN , EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published September 22, 2022
After graduating from the University of Alabama in May and before starting a finance job with Lockheed Martin this month, Ryan Hearst went on a Birthright trip through his university’s Hillel chapter to Israel. It was the first time the 22-year-old...
It didn’t take Zoe Klevens very long to return to Israel after getting back from her first trip there this summer. In fairness, the Parkway Central High School junior had already decided in advance of her summer trip to spend the fall, or more specifically...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 15, 2022
A gathering of more than 2,000 celebrated Jewish food, music and culture on August 14 at the Foundry Arts Centre in St. Charles.
The Chabad Jewish Center of St. Charles County sponsored the second annual St. Charles Jewish Festival.
Musical highlights...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 3, 2022
NCJW St. Louis volunteers were out in force Sunday, July 31 for the 22nd year of the Back to School! Store. The annual event provides school supplies and other essentials to underserved elementary school children throughout the St. Louis area. The 2022...
