Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 22, 2024
Jewish Federation of St. Louis has announced the award winners to be honored at the 2024 Evening of Impact to be held Thursday, May 9. Dafna Revah and MaryAnn Smyly Sabin have been chosen as the recipients of the 2024 David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 19, 2024
The Jewish Light's first ever “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder” was a sold out masterpiece of creativity. With more than 300 tickets sold, the audience packed the City Winery St. Louis at the City Foundry in Midtown for a night of music, featuring...
From 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, May 6 author Rabbi Jeffrey Gale will discuss his new book, “The Secret of Redemption.” This book is the sequel to the author’s first book, “The Ballad of East and West,” which tells the story of Rabbi Isaac Levin’s...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN & BILL MOTCHAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 17, 2024
No doubt when Passover begins at sundown Monday, April 22, thousands of St. Louis Jewish families will be marking the holiday with a seder that evening and possibly the next during the eight-day holiday.
Just as likely as the seder itself is having a...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 17, 2024
Just in time for the first night of Passover, Jewish a cappella group Six13 dropped their latest musical parody video - MATZA MIA!
If the title doesn't jump out at you, it's a not to the legendary Swedish quartet ABBA, who rocked the world of disco...
While a student at Clayton High School, Zachary Millner had two pieces of artwork chosen for the digital 2023 AP Art & Design Exhibit, which is currently online to view.
His portfolio was one of 50 chosen out of the 70,000 submitted internationally....
Abi Kornblum will star as the daughter/granddaughter in an upcoming short film about a family from the Ozarks (she cannot share the film’s title until it is released).
The daughter of Monica and the late Mike Kornblum, Abi is a senior at Parkway Central...
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine created an endowed fund to support a lectureship in honor of Dr. Michael J. Holtzman.
This endowment will provide support...
Rachel Wallis Andreasson is the coauthor of a new book, “The Sixth Level: Capitalize on the Power of Women’s Psychology for Sustainable Leadership.” Andreasson is the executive director of Congregation Temple Israel. The additional co-authors of...
Among the 2024 inductees of the Clayton Alumni Hall of Fame are Naomi Cahn (1975), professor, University of Virginia School of Law; Daniel F. Feldman (1985), former U.S. ambassador, Chevy Chase, Md.; Benjamin Hochman (1998), journalist, Clayton; and...
Phyllis Markus is one of the 10 local leaders who will be honored among the 2024 Women of Achievement (Markus is being recognized for Multicultural Advocacy). A luncheon on May 14 at the Ritz-Carlton will recognize the honorees for their commitment to...
(JTA) — The number of antisemitic incidents more than doubled last year, shooting up particularly following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit. Locally, the Jewish community in Missouri experienced...
