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Alex Kor, son of Holocaust survivor Eva Kor

Could you forgive a Nazi? She did—for herself

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 28, 2025

While listening to the incredible program that was last month's Yom HaShoah Holocaust Commemoration 2025 at Congregation Temple Israel, I thought I had heard all the stories one could hear about surviving the Holocaust. I was wrong. The featured...

Cheesecake recipes, commandments and a dairy-packed Shavuot bash

Cheesecake recipes, commandments and a dairy-packed Shavuot bash

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 27, 2025

Some people make New Year’s resolutions. I make summer resolutions. This year’s list? Avoid dairy, sodium and carbs—basically, anything that tastes good. So yes, I’ll be enjoying Shavuot from a respectful, slightly envious distance. But that doesn’t...

Hope, help and jelly donuts: Temple Emanuel’s drive-thru relief

Hope, help and jelly donuts: Temple Emanuel’s drive-thru relief

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 27, 2025

A week after tornadoes tore through parts of St. Louis, Temple Emanuel did what Jewish communities have done for generations—showed up, opened hearts, and filled a truck. On Saturday, May 24, the synagogue hosted what they dubbed a “Drive Through...

Jewish St. Louis skaters sweep hockey medals at Senior Olympics

Jewish St. Louis skaters sweep hockey medals at Senior Olympics

Published May 27, 2025

Jewish St. Louis Senior Olympians competing in the ice hockey accuracy shootout took the top three spots in the new event in the 2025 games. Marc Oberman grabbed the gold medal and Monte Sandler captured silver. Scott Chelist, who took the bronze...

Owen Whalen, 18, and Jake Goldfarb, 17

Future Senior Olympians? Meet the teens behind the clipboards

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 27, 2025

Two St. Louis Senior Olympics volunteers love sports and plan to enter the competition, but not for another 30-plus years. Owen Whalen, 18, and Jake Goldfarb, 17, could be seen at multiple 2025 St. Louis Senior Olympics venues, clipboards in hand. Both...

Jaime “Jai-Jai” Goldstein

Powerlifting nana now owns 250 medals—and still benches more than you

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 27, 2025

Powerlifting grandmother Jaime “Jai-Jai” Goldstein now has amassed more than 250 medals and trophies, including five golds and one silver in the 2025 St. Louis Senior Olympics. Goldstein, who was profiled in the Jewish Light in 2023, has been competing...

Harvey and Brad Wallace

Father-son team repeats gold in Senior Olympics racquetball

Published May 27, 2025

The father-son team of Harvey and Brad Wallace captured the gold medal in the St. Louis Senior Olympics racquetball doubles competition. It represented a repeat performance in the top spot from 2024 in the men’s age 50-54 division. Harvey Wallace...

St. Louis Scouts place 8,000 flags at Jewish veteran graves in Memorial Day tribute

St. Louis Scouts place 8,000 flags at Jewish veteran graves in Memorial Day tribute

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 26, 2025

For more than 40 years, St. Louis area scouts have placed flags at Jewish veterans’ graves on Memorial Day weekend. “We have 400 scouts participating at every Jewish cemetery today,” said Steve Sobelman, who coordinated the event at Chesed Shel...

Ronen Bergman

NYT Magazine writer reveals Mossad secrets at St. Louis event

Jewish Light StaffPublished May 26, 2025

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ronen Bergman is coming to St. Louis as the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation’s 2nd Annual Men’s Event on Wednesday, June 18, at The Factory in Chesterfield. Co-chaired by Jeffrey Cohen...

Rabbi Michael Alper

Rabbi speaks of Torah power at Memorial Day ceremony

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 26, 2025

A solemn ceremony at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum on Sunday, May 25, marked Memorial Day 2025. Jewish War Veterans Post 644 hosted the event, which featured a presentation by Rabbi Michael Alper, senior rabbi at Congregation Temple...

Judy Gold.

Judy Gold won’t shut up—and that’s exactly why you’ll want a front-row seat

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished May 22, 2025

If you’re of a certain age and Jewish and aren’t familiar with Judy Gold, well, sorry, but that seems wrong. For more than 40 years, this 6-foot-2 comedy force of nature has been making audiences laugh — and occasionally squirm — with her no-holds-barred...

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were identified as the two Israeli embassy staffers killed in a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025. They had attended an embassy event to mark Israel's 77th Independence Day on May 10. (X)

‘She was one of us’: St. Louis reacts to murder of Kansas City native in DC shooting

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 22, 2025

St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, were gunned...

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