The Missouri Torah Institute held a dedication for its new home in Chesterfield on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2015. The Orthodox school purchased the eight-acre campus on Clarkson Road from St. Joseph School for the Deaf over the summer and started holding classes...
David Makovsky discusses "Iran: The agreement, its prospects and implications for the future" at Congregation B'nai Amoona on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015.The event was a special collaboration between the Jewish Federation’s Sh’ma Listen Series and Can...
Professional kosher cake decorator Gitti Allman of New York visited St. Louis to lead a Hanukkah-themed cookie and cupcake decorating class on Sunday as a fundraiser for Yeshivat Kadimah High School. Hanukkah begins at sundown Tuesday, Dec. 16 and ends...
On Oct. 7, Cantor Ron Eichaker of United Hebrew Congregation taught a class on cooking for Sukkot during the ‘In the Festive Kitchen’ series held by Central Agency for Jewish Education and UH, where the class took place. Eichaker treated the class...
University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor Ashlie Latiolais (not pictured) gets help from her team and the Kansas State team in raising the 14-foot structure of Latiolais' sukkah design on Oct. 6, 2014 at Washington University. Latiolais'...
The Aug. 6 Can We Talk? event on media coverage of Gaza featured panelists Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel (who Skyped in from Israel at 3 a.m. his time) and Adam Goodman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, moderated by Larry Levin of the Jewish Light....
The St. Louis Jewish Light, Jewish Community Relations Council and Jewish Community Center hosted a panel and moderated discussion on how the media has handled the Israel-Gaza conflict. Panel members included Haviv Gur, a political analyst for The Times...
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis hosted a community briefing on July 21, 2014 to reflect on what is happening in Israel. It included an analysis of the situation, first-hand accounts from those who had just returned from Israel, an explanation of the...
Rabbi Avi Bloch (left) completes the final letters of a Torah for Tpheris Israel Chevra Kadisha (T.I.C.K.) congregation in Chesterfield. With Rabbi Bloch are T.I.C.K.'s Rabbi Aaron Winter (center) and Chabad of Greater St. Louis Director Rabbi Yosef...
As guests were leaving Richard Kalina's bar mitzvah at Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel on Oct. 8 1977, shots rang out. Years later, Joseph Paul Franklin would be convicted of the shooting, which killed Gerald Gordon and left two others wounded. Here, the...
The killing last June of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. by a longtime neo-Nazi proved to the world that hate violence, in particular, anti-Semitism, is far from dead in America. Then again, all one needs to...
