Four years after it shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HJ’s Café at Covenant Place on the I.E. Millstone Jewish Community Campus has reopened. The café, which is located adjacent to the Mirowitz Center in the Covenant Place II Cahn Family...

Men’s events designed to gather men together hold significant importance for fostering community, personal growth, and spiritual development. These events can help men build meaningful relationships, support one another through life’s challenges,...

Florentin, the new Israeli-inspired restaurant from restaurateur Ben Poremba, is set to open in St. Louis' Delmar Maker District on Friday, June 7. Named for Poremba’s favorite neighborhood in Tel Aviv. the eatery aims to bring the Bohemian...

The newest midfielder/defender for St. Louis CITY SC is a Jewish Australian. Jake Girdwood-Reich recently signed with the team through 2027, with a club option for 2028. Girdwood-Reich must first obtain international clearance and a P-1 visa, a non-immigrant...

A new exhibition is putting a focus on the critical role military chaplains played during World War I and it features the legendary Rabbi Elkan C. Voorsanger, who was known as "The Fighting Rabbi from St. Louis." The exhibition "Sacred Service," recently...

On Sunday, St. Louis Jewish Light Editor-in-Chief Ellen Futterman, freelance writer-photographer Bill Motchan and I ventured east to Nashville, Tenn., for the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association. On Monday night, the Light received...

Dodi Smason has joined the Jewish Federation of St. Louis team as its manager of Jewish Community Engagement. She will be working to enhance Federation’s community internally and externally by creating Jewish engagement and educational opportunities,...

The invasion of Normandy marked a critical turning point during World War II. The Allied armies launched the largest amphibious invasion in military history June 6, 1944. That battle 80 years ago was a costly one, with 73,000 Allied forces killed over...

Former St. Louisan Samantha (Sam) Thal was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She has joined Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka, Minn. as a pulpit rabbi.

The chilling true-story Italian-language drama “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” (originally “Rapito”) depicts the strange but true kidnapping of a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna in 1858, on orders of the Pope after hearing that...

When Lisa Johnson’s internship at The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ended in 2022, she described her work as nothing short of a labor of love. As a undergraduate student at Webster University majoring in German, Johnson...

The Jewish Light received six Simon Rockower Awards for excellence in journalism. The awards, which honor achievements in Jewish media published in 2023, were announced during the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA) annual meeting on Monday, June...