A prestigious award given by the University of Missouri to a photojournalist who took an image depicting the half-naked body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, has...

The following story first appeared in the Jewish Light on Nov. 17, 1982. Butch Yatkeman was one of the first to enter and one of the last to leave Busch Memorial Stadium for the historic Game Seven of this year's World Series. But he saw just a scant...

Anna Goldfarb Shabsin and David Rosenstock, the Bohm Family, Barry Rosenberg and Heather Fleming will be honored at the Jewish Community Relations Council’s (JCRC) 2024 Tzedek Awards on May 21 at the Clayton Plaza Hotel. Shabsin and Rosenstock will...

Brian Feit is a Parkway Central and Camp Sabra alum, his go-to gift is a tree in Israel and his New York City home is a converted synagogue. He started his company with friends from his Jewish fraternity at the University of Illinois. He also works with...

As Passover draws near this year, Chabad is gearing up to welcome hundreds of attendees to public Passover seders on the first two nights of the holiday— on April 22 and 23. The community seders take participants through the story...

Sometimes the most unexpected journeys lead to the most remarkable destinations. For Elana James, hers has beena musical one which began at the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in Kansas City and now brings her to St. Louis, for a show on Friday, April 12,...

A good news update on 11-year-old Drew Patchin, who was diagnosed in 2019 with a rare form of brain cancer called Anaplastic ependymoma. After participating in a Car T-cell therapy clinical trial at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis that...

St. Louis University announced Josh Schertz has been hired as its new head coach of the Billikens' men's basketball program. The former Indiana State coach was a 2024 Red Auerbach Coach of the Year nominee, an award presented by the Jewish Coaches...

Editor’s Note: The original version of this story was published by the Forward Aug. 17, 2017. While Jewish tradition has long been accepting of the basic scientific explanations for the rules of the cosmos, that hasn’t stopped rabbis and...

Last Oct. 7, everything changed for Naomi Petel Adler and Mirjam Heutink, two residents of Nahal Oz, a kibbutz less than one mile from Gaza. Both women and their families survived the Hamas attack. They visited St. Louis on April 4 to share painful memories...

One of the newest residents at The Clover STL apartment community in Olivette is Madam Owlberta Wobblewings. The great horned owl has taken up residence on the balcony of an apartment rented by Jewish St. Louisans Rebecca and Zach Berg, who named the...