Jordan Kadosh, regional director of ADL Heartland based in St. Louis, is just one of 26 emerging leaders in our region to be selected to a join Leadership Missouri, a program designed to expand participants insight into the state’s potential as well...

The St. Louis Jewish community has been blessed with a host of benefactors, who through the years demonstrated the art of tzedakah in multiple ways. Names such as I.E. Millstone, Thomas R. Green, Morris H. Sterneck and Michael Staenberg appear on buildings,...

A St. Louis area nursing school ranked No. 1 this year by “Nursing Schools Almanac” bears the name of a man who was a philanthropist, entrepreneur and leader in the Jewish community. That man was Alvin Goldfarb. Goldfarb School of Nursing, with...

An amazing thing happened to the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis (JCRC) team at last week's GIVE STL trivia event at The Armory. They won and won big! "The Nonprofit Night at the Armory" gathered some 600 people from around the St....

In his new book, “The Anxious Generation” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s writes about how spending time on smartphones and the popularity of social media apps affects teenagers mental health. Haidt and other researchers are finding direct...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sai Varshith Kandula, the Chesterfield man who last May flew from St. Louis to Washington D.C., rented a U-Haul truck, and drove it into White House security barriers while displaying a Nazi flag, pleaded guilty on Monday for damaging...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House denied reports that the United States withheld intelligence from Israel on the whereabouts of Hamas’ leaders. The reports alleged that the United States would provide the intelligence in exchange for Israel...

Five hundred rivets—that was Oskar Jakob’s goal. Failure to meet the quota in a 12-hour shift meant severe punishment. “If I didn’t make the minimum, I got beaten,” Jakob said. Oskar Jakob, 94, is a Jewish St. Louisan and Holocaust...

Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) was commemorated in a solemn ceremony on Sunday, May 12, at the JCC’s Staenberg Family Complex. Members of the community filled the audience to capacity to remember fallen Israeli soldiers. The event was particularly...

The entire St. Louis community is invited to celebrate Israel’s 76th Anniversary on Tuesday, May 14, at the at Chesterfield Amphitheater. The program includes music, games, and food available for purchase from Kohn’s Kosher Meat & Deli. A booth...

It’s sure to be a special commencement ceremony for St. Louis philanthropists and arts patrons Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg. This Monday morning, May 13, the couple will don caps and gowns as they receive honorary doctorates from Washington University...

In Hebrew there are plenty of phrases that are related to new beginnings, one is: סוף זה תמיד התחלה של משהו אחר In English, the phrase translates into 'An ending is always a beginning of something else' and that is exactly...