Chelsea Leon will be moving into the role of special events manager in the Development Department of the Jewish Community Center (the J). She will be the point person for J’la, J Associates, and other events for the Philanthropy team.  Leon was most...

Who doesn’t like a good laugh? That’s right, nobody. And while this somebody might not be a household name yet, she’s definitely drawing attention as a Jewish queer comedian/actor/hot person whose comedic viral TikToks (https://www.tiktok.com/@antonialastar?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc)...

John Wesley Posey, son of Karen Flotte and John Posey, has achieved the Eagle Scout Rank. A senior at St. Louis University High School, his scout project was to plan and lead a group of volunteers in building three portable bookshelves for textbooks that...

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) officially kicked off her bid for re-election during an event held on Jan. 27 at the North Oaks Plaza in north St. Louis County. During the event, Bush made several comments critical of U.S. support for Israel and...

Nothing like a little friendly competition to bring an entire community together. On second thought, who are we kidding? The battle is on, bragging rights are up for grabs, and remember, there is no crying in the "Battle of...

Help the farmers of Israel I came home to Israel from University City over 41 years ago. As a child I remember in 1967 and 1973 U.S. Jews getting on planes to help Israel when there was a manpower shortage due to the war all the people called up to defend...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Bob Dylan once recorded 15 songs in a single day for Blood on the Tracks, but when he had to sing his part for “We Are...

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the Israeli economy has suffered, said Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Consul General of Israel on his visit to St. Louis this week. During an event sponsored and convened by the Jewish Federation of St. Louis on Feb. 7, Elbaz-Starinsky...

  The survival of Israel is critically important to the United States. That was a key message from a conversation between Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Mark Wilf, owner and president of the Minnesota Vikings. During an event sponsored...

Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of St. Louis-based Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc., has joined the board of Venture for America. This national entrepreneurship group places recent college graduates into entrepreneurship-focused fellowships. Venture...

Tall, lean and ever so handsome, Yakir Hexter had all the right moves, especially when it came to “popping and locking.”  To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what popping and locking looked like until Yakir’s grandfather, Chris Hexter of University...

JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri House of Representatives committee on Feb. 6 held a hearing on a pro-Israel resolution. Nearly 120 supporters of the resolution attended the hearing, including 100 students from Epstein Hebrew Academy and Torah Prep. The...