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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...