BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published November 1, 2023
More than 30 St. Louis Jewish community organizations, including rabbis and presidents of synagogues from every stream of Judaism, signed an open letter Wednesday to Rep. Cori Bush in response to her remarks...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 1, 2023
The St. Louis Jewish community is invited to participate in three upcoming events this weekend in support of Israel. Two will be held locally, while one will be hosted in Jerusalem and shown live on social...
Andrew “Andy” Thorp has been named the executive director of Crown Center for Senior Living beginning December 2023. Thorp succeeds Nikki Goldstein who served in the same role for the past 23 years.
A...
(JTA) — Hamas has opened the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to some wounded people and foreign citizens as its war with Israel has escalated.
It was the first of a series of planned openings of...
(JTA) — It was on the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, Asher Moskowitz recalled, that he saw the baby among the corpses at Camp Shura.
Moskowitz had come to Shura, a military base near...
(New York Jewish Week) — Police have taken a suspect into custody over threats to kill Jewish students at Cornell University over the weekend, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Tuesday as her office...
"Little Bird," a new miniseries that will debut to St. Louis audiences on Thursday, November 2 on Nine PBS at 9 p.m., tells the powerful story of a Jewish woman named Esther Rosenblum. The six-part series,...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2023
Book lovers, get ready. The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival is back, Nov. 5-19, every day except Saturday, Nov. 18. The annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival is a nationally recognized event, now in its...
David Swindle, Jewish News Syndicate
• Published October 30, 2023
Anti-Israel protesters assaulted multiple people at Tulane University in New Orleans on Oct. 26, the most serious being after Jewish students at a rally responded to those aboard a truck who attempted...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 30, 2023
The ancient world of wine in Israel, widely regarded as one of the oldest wine-producing regions, has historically symbolized peace and goodwill. However, the sudden attack by Hamas terrorists on Oct....
Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles
• Published October 30, 2023
In the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the Israeli military response, Jewish people in Israel and around the world have, at times, been posting on social media or otherwise...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 30, 2023
A group of 30 middle-school spent an afternoon learning about social change on Sunday, Oct. 29, at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School. The Changemakers Unite Summit offered the fifth through eighth...
