Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 16, 2023
Last week hundreds of WashU students gathered to remember and honor those who lost their lives to terrorism in Israel, after the surprise attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7.
The gathering on Thursday was planned by student leaders convened...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 15, 2023
A rally in support of Israel drew about 500 people on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 15. The event was held on Schuetz Road near the Jewish Federation building.
As St. Louisans held up Israeli flags and signs, cars drove by honking to show their support. The...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 6, 2023
Kol Rinah leaders participated in a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 5 for the expansion of the Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhoold Center.
One of the special guests at the event was Michelle Harris, mayor of the City of Clayton, who said “Early...
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...
