Starting July 1, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will begin a new, free art workshop entitled, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims.” Butterflies have long been a symbol of the children murdered during the Holocaust....

On Sunday, 18 Israeli children began their first American summer camp adventure at Camp Ben Frankel, a Jewish sleepaway camp located in Makanda, Ill., about two hours south of St. Louis. All of these youngsters were either displaced from their homes...

The renovation of the Jewish Community Center’s Marilyn Fox Building is underway with significant changes already visible. Those updates will be on display at a donor event on Monday evening, June 24. Construction began on the 26-year-old facility...

On June 30, Brian Herstig will no longer be Jewish Federation of St. Louis president and CEO. In March, he announced that he was resigning his position so that he and his wife, Barb, and their two young children, could move closer to family in Minnesota.  Herstig,...

Workers at Jewish Family Services are trying to form a union, citing a need for improved work conditions and stronger employee protections at the nonprofit social services agency. They are organizing with the Communications Workers of America Local 6400...

As a teen growing up in St. Louis, Laurie Cohen remembers how excited she was when she got to visit family in New York and her uncle would take her to apparel houses in Manhattan’s garment center. There, she would scan the racks of sample dresses, skirts...

After 21 years at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, Patty Bloom is going out on her own. She was most recently the director of admissions and marketing. BLOOM Strategies for Growing, her new company, offers strategies for admissions skillset, enrollment,...

Andrea Newstead has been promoted to director of operations at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School. She was previously the director of technology and will now oversee marketing and communications, technology and security. This will be Newstead’s 19th...

Since the Anti-Defamation League released its first-ever Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April, universities across the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in antisemitic incidents and hostile campus climates. This surge led the ADL to reassess...

(JTA) — A Missouri judge upheld the state’s abortion ban Friday, rejecting efforts by a group of 14 interfaith clergy, including rabbis, who sought to protect reproductive rights by suing the state on religious freedom grounds. The faith leaders,...

Nothing says "possibility" more than a blank wall. So, when the 57-year-old Crown Center senior living facility in University City received a $1 million donation from philanthropists Michael and Carol Staenberg to build a new 52-unit residential building...

As school lets out, many teenagers are eager to find a summer job. From fast food restaurants to car washes, countless places of employment are available for teenagers to work. Many, however, choose to spend their summers working at a place of familiarity:...