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Photos: The amazing purse collection of Abbie White

Photos: The amazing purse collection of Abbie White

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished November 30, 2022

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...

Photos: Hazzan Sharon Nathanson's 'Sweet 16+'

Photos: Hazzan Sharon Nathanson’s ‘Sweet 16+’

Jordan Palmer and Bill MotchanPublished November 14, 2022

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

Photos: Jewish veterans honored on Veterans Day

Published November 13, 2022

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,...

Israel summer trips 2022: Gracie May

Israel summer trips 2022: Gracie May

ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-ChiefPublished 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...

Photos: Ribbon cutting ceremony for the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum

Photos: Ribbon cutting ceremony for the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum

Published November 3, 2022

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

St. Louis teen: Israel journey deepened her connection to Judaism

St. Louis teen: Israel journey deepened her connection to Judaism

ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-ChiefPublished 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)...

Photos: Mirowitz 'tashlich' teaches kids environmental 'teshuvah'

Photos: Mirowitz ‘tashlich’ teaches kids environmental ‘teshuvah’

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished October 14, 2022

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...

Diane Von Furstenberg. Photo by Bill Motchan

Photos: Fashion icon Diane Von Furstenberg wows St. Louis audience

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 13, 2022

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...

B'nai Amoona Sukkahs, by Bill Motchan

Photos: “Sukkah City” at B’nai Amoona

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished October 10, 2022

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...

Israel summer trips 2022: Celia Weingart

Israel summer trips 2022: Celia Weingart

ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-ChiefPublished 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...

A community Kabbalat Shabbat and tashlich ceremony was held on the banks of Creve Coeur Lake on Fri., Sept. 30. The event was hosted by the St. Louis chapter of the Israeli American Council, Shevet Keshet (Israeli Scouts), JCC and PJ Library. The event included a potluck dinner, preceded by the tashlich, where dozens of people cast their sins, symbolized by casting bird seed into the water. The ceremony was led Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham from Congregation B’nai Amoona. Photos: Bill Motchan

Photos: Community tashlich at Creve Coeur Park

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished October 7, 2022

Photos: NCJWSTL's Couturier event through the years as the 58th annual approaches

Photos: NCJWSTL’s Couturier event through the years as the 58th annual approaches

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 29, 2022

Growing up a Jewish boy in St. Louis, I had zero idea that every year since 1964, the National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis (NCJWSTL) held an annual event to raise funds to support women, children and families in our community. The event that I...

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