I thought I was researching another forgotten advertisement from the archives of the St. Louis Jewish Light. For nearly a decade, every Wednesday, readers could turn to Page 3 and find what looked like another restaurant advertisement. It...

  Every 15 minutes or so, Dr. Monroe Ginsberg puts down his spatula. He wipes his hands on his festival apron, picks up a long, curved Yemenite shofar and walks into the crowd. A few moments later, the deep sound of the ram's horn echoes...

Ok, kids, gather 'round. We're at the halfway point of 2026 and it's time for a little midterm check-in. We made all those grand plans six months ago — resolutions, promises and such. How are we doing? A wellness check for your wellness plan Has...

Many years ago, I was on the Missouri Arts Council, a nonprofit that supports the arts in our state, and I always felt there was a distinct rivalry between St. Louis and Kansas City when it came to the arts. I wasn't sure if it was just my impression,...

For three decades, when Jewish families called The Sukkah Project because a sukkah was too expensive, the Herman family usually found a way to say yes. Sometimes it meant stretching payments over several months. Other times it meant offering large...

  When Helen Turner began teaching about the Holocaust in 2011, many students still had a personal connection to World War II. Some had met a Holocaust survivor. Others knew a World War II veteran. The Holocaust was moving into history,...

  Seven summers ago, about 100 people gathered in a St. Charles park for a community barbecue. It had no official name. There was no sprawling marketplace, no live music, no kosher food vendors and no thousands of visitors celebrating Jewish...

St. Louis Votes is launching a new effort to boost Jewish voter participation ahead of Missouri's Aug. 4 primary election, hoping to build on a campaign that organizers say dramatically outperformed overall voter turnout during the last election cycle. The...

  There was a time when I played a lot of golf. Not well, mind you. But often. Then life happened. Marriage, babies, friends moved away. My clubs stayed in the basement more than they made it to the course. When a TopGolf opened near...

  When Rabbi Ze'ev Smason learned that more than half of American Jews are now choosing cremation rather than traditional burial, he was stunned. The statistic caught him off guard not because cremation rates have been rising across American...

  During our recent vacation, my wife and I decided we needed something new to watch. The first thing that popped up when we turned on our Airbnb condo TV was a promo for the new Netflix limited series "I Will Find You." I'll admit it....

  For 18-year-old triplets Caleb, Aidan and Noah Kornblum, the Eagle Scout award is the culmination of 11 years spent in the Scouting America program learning valuable life skills and giving back to their community. Last month, the three...