BY MICHAEL OBERLANDER, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 13, 2022
I am often asked why Sandy Koufax is my favorite baseball player; after all, he retired two years before I was born. I guess for the same reason that I was rooting for Max Fried to win the last game of the 2021 World Series and cheered when Jacob Steinmetz...
I never pray during silent prayer.
At age 6 or 7, while sitting beside my parents in a sanctuary full of worshippers bowing their heads and swaying back and forth, I convinced myself that too many people were talking to G-d at once. I reserved my prayers...
(JNS) South Korea ratified its free trade agreement with Israel on Tuesday. It’s the first FTA that Israel has signed with an Asian country. The agreement goes into force on Dec. 1.
Israel exports about $1.5 billion annually to South Korea and imports...
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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 7, 2022
Do Jewish tradition and scientific reasoning provide two different and sometimes contradictory sources of truth? It's a question that Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have strived to address. For the past year, St. Louis Jews have been invited to not...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s school year ended in June with a strike by teachers. It very nearly began with one, too.
Instead, children headed back to school Thursday amid a new deal between teachers and the Ministry of Education that raises starting...
DIANA BLETTER, Israel21c.org
• Published August 23, 2022
Ahh. That first taste of tahini. Sweet, peanut-buttery, smooth…That first taste was the moment that Jackie Zitelman’s two sisters, Shelby and Amy, will always remember from their visit to Israel.
It was in 2011 when Jackie, an American living in...
(JNS) A bull escaped from its confinement on Monday morning, causing a panic in the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod before entering an office building and eluding capture for half an hour as it scurried along the corridors.
The animal entered...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published August 17, 2022
Brady Meyerson went to Israel this summer on Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Israel Bound trip, which ran from June 13-July 4. He joined roughly 60 other teens who also were on the three-week trip; for many, like Brady, it was their first time visiting...
