Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published 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...
JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
By Emma Dent, Washington University
• Published 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...
(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...
(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...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published 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...
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...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...