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...

The Brothers Lazaroff, Rabbi James Stone Goodman and the Eight Nights Orchestra took the stage at the Grandel Theatre Dec. 3 for the 12th annual Hanukkah Hullaballoo concert. Proceeds from this year’s event go to the Jewish Community Center in...

Abbie White loved collecting purses. She had some 500 of them, many antique rarities. White, who died in 2016, was a longtime resident of Covenant Place. Besides collecting purses, White participated in many Covenant Place activities. She was a member...

Hazzan Sharon Nathanson, backed by a band, was the featured performer at Congregation B’nai Amoona on Sunday, November 13 to celebrate her 16th year serving the congregation. The concert was billed as Cantor Sharon Nathanson’s Sweet 16+ concert...

Military veterans, their family members and supporters attended a Veterans Day celebration November 11. The event was co-sponsored by the host Mirowitz Center, Jewish War Veterans, and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Monroe Ginsburg,...

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...

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum reopened yesterday after a $25 million renovation that took two years to complete.

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)...

Students at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School on Sept. 30 put a unique spin on the Jewish tradition of tashlich. The custom involves going to a nearby body of water and casting breadcrumbs or birdseed, symbolic of casting one’s sins from the past...

Washington University’s Graham Chapel was the site of a packed house Oct. 12 listening to life lessons and wisdom from a fashion icon. “Speaking of Fashion: Conversation with Diane von Furstenberg” featured the famous designer chatting with Derek...

A group of Congregation B’nai Amoona members took exactly one hour to build an entire city on Sunday, Oct. 9. The “sukkah city” also used the construction talents of all grades of the congregation’s religious school. Ten teams erected one sukkah...

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...