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Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Dec. 19, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu orders crackdown on migrants after unrest in Tel Aviv

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 3, 2023

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked his advisors to renew their efforts to eject African asylum seekers from the country following an explosive clash between rival Eritrean groups...

Ambitious ‘Lehman Brothers’ play is both a Jewish and American story

Ambitious ‘Lehman Brothers’ play is both a Jewish and American story

JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 31, 2023

Earlier this summer in Boston, Carey Perloff directed the first “homegrown” production of “The Lehman Trilogy,” a British import that won the 2022 Tony Award for best play. Now she’s directing...

Jewish Life Television joining Spectrum's St. Louis area channel lineup

Jewish Life Television joining Spectrum’s St. Louis area channel lineup

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 31, 2023

Did you know there was an entire network dedicated to Jewish life? There is, and now many more St. Louis Jewish families will be able to access it. This week, Jewish Life Television, (JLTV) announced a...

Map of Jewish Palestine showing the growth of Jewish agricultural, commercial, and industrial activity in the region. Berlin, 1923.

Jewish Light readers get exclusive first look at new Yiddish exhibit in NYC

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 31, 2023

Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Jewish scholars and intellectuals who focused on the study of all aspects of Jewish life decided to ensure Jewish history, language, traditions and religious culture were...

During her lifetime, Miriam Barr instilled a love of learning into her son, Eliav, and his three siblings.

Couple pledges $1 million to WashU Libraries in honor of Holocaust survivor Miriam Barr

By Emma Dent, Washington UniversityPublished August 31, 2023

Before Miriam Barr was an adult, she was a survivor. Born in 1937 to Jewish parents living in present-day eastern Ukraine, she was only a toddler when her father died. When Barr was four, the Nazis apprehended...

Israeli security at the scene of a truck ramming terror attack near Maccabim in central Israel, Aug. 31, 2023.

Palestinian rams truck into group of soldiers, killing one and injuring five

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished August 31, 2023

(JTA) — A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of soldiers in Israel, killing one and wounding five before being shot dead, in the latest incident amid an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In...

Introducing the 2023 Unsung Heroes

Introducing the 2023 Unsung Heroes

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished August 31, 2023
Nine individuals and one married couple will be recognized as the 2023 Jewish Light Unsung Heroes.
Police at the scene of a stabbing at the Shivtei Israel light rail station in Jerusalem, Aug. 30, 2023.

Palestinian stabs man near Jerusalem’s Old City, is shot dead

Published August 30, 2023

(JTA) — A Palestinian assailant used a kitchen knife to stab a man at a light rail station next to Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in violence in the West Bank and Israel. A...

Jewish St. Louis teen softball team reunites after 60 years

Jewish St. Louis teen softball team reunites after 60 years

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished August 30, 2023

In 1964, a group of University City Jewish teenagers regularly played softball under the banner of Haganah, AZA (a B’nai B’rith Youth Organization chapter). On Aug. 27, nearly 60 years later, most...

Rabbi Andrea Goldstein

Shaare Emeth plans silver anniversary celebration for Rabbi Goldstein

Published August 29, 2023

Congregation Shaare Emeth will hold an anniversary celebration for Rabbi Andrea Goldstein’s 25 years in the rabbinate (and at Congregation Shaare Emeth) as well as her completion of a Doctor of Ministry...

Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky

From bar mitzvah prank to Hollywood success: Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky’s creative journey

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished August 29, 2023

Midway through his 1992 bar mitzvah at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 13-year-old Danny Jacobs addressed the congregation. “I’ve always wondered what it would be like to talk to G-d,” he began, cueing...

The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House Education Center in Chesterfield.

A brief Jewish history of the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House as it turns 25

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 29, 2023

This September, the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield celebrates 25 years and will mark its silver anniversary with three events throughout the month. Given this milestone, we figured...

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