Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 17, 2023
By day, Rachel Bray is the engagement coordinator at Jewish Community Relations Council. But when she isn't engaging on varying topics for the JCRC, the Belleville, Ill. native is busy creating art. Some...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 14, 2023
Two recent decisions to schedule events and classes at Washington University during the upcoming Jewish High Holidays have many in the local Jewish community concerned and asking why.
Cultural Leadership is currently searching for middle school and high school students to apply to join its next High School Leadership and Emerging Changemakers classes starting this December!
Cultural...
This weekend, the first grand blasts of shofars will be heard all around the St. Louis region. The ancient practice of a ram’s horn turned into an instrument is the highlight for many on Rosh Hashanah...
By Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published September 12, 2023
White supremacists have recently attempted to disrupt services at dozens of synagogues by calling in false reports to police. Sometimes they claim that there was a bomb in the building or that a mass shooting...
Bill Motchan, St. Louis Jewish Light
• Published September 12, 2023
In 2022, the Jewish Light introduced you to Katie Harris and her service dog Moxie. Harris, 42, a Jewish St. Louis-based social worker, was diagnosed in 2015 with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a group of disorders...
The lineup of authors and events for the 2023 St. Louis Jewish Book Festival is now officially, official. The main change for the year is instead of one keynote speaker, the festival is featuring four...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 11, 2023
As the Chief Digital Content Officer at the Jewish Light part of my job is to keep an eye on digital trends. One thing I noticed over the last 72 hours was a surge in traffic to a story I wrote a year...
The New Jewish Theatre is pleased to announce its 2024 season, which is also its 26th season of producing professional plays and musicals at the J. The season celebrates some of the New Jewish Theatre’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 11, 2023
Before Ben Hochman, the award-winning (and Jewish) St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist, ever penned a word about the Cardinals or the Blues, he was a budding creator of musical theater.
“It was...
Dr. Rebecca Aft, a breast cancer surgeon and researcher, has been named the inaugural Jeffrey F. Moley Professor of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.
She is...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 10, 2023
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer born to a Jewish family in Brno in 1899. A prodigy, Haas produced his first formal composition by the age of 14. In 1938, his successful career was turned upside down with...
