Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 9, 2025
Celia Weingart, a 20-year-old sophomore at Miami University and St. Louis native, is bringing a fresh perspective to Jewish representation in theater. As part of a theater history class, Weingart’s research...
At Congregation Temple Israel’s 138th Annual Meeting, Rachel Wallis Andreasson was honored with a Pillar of the Temple Award for her decades-long dedication to TI through various leadership and volunteer...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 6, 2025
When Bruce Schneider passed away on Sept. 9, 2022, St. Louis lost more than a beloved husband, father and friend. It lost a man whose generosity, positivity and passion for helping others left a lasting...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 6, 2025
Esther Miller Bais Yaakov High School (EMBY) will celebrate its 29th Anniversary Dinner on March 2 at the Ritz-Carlton. This year, the school will recognize four outstanding individuals for their dedication...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 5, 2025
Sam Donald remembers handling a basketball for the first time, well before he could walk.
At age 18, Donald is the leading scorer for the Columbia (Ill.) High School Eagles. This summer, he will be the...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published February 4, 2025
Ashley Melton knew choosing the play was a bold decision. After years of directing comedies at Edwardsville High School (EHS), she felt it was time to offer her drama club a different experience, one that...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 4, 2025
As our readers hopefully have noticed—and in this case, two readers, Harry Nadler and Helene Sherman, did—we sometimes go back into our vast Jewish Light archives and find an old newspaper advertisement...
Emily Trent was featured in the new movie “Seeing Someone Else.” SSE is a psychedelic coming-of-age comedy about a young man coming to terms with his future after breaking up with his girlfriend,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 2, 2025
Last month, during Bagel Week, I published a story reminiscing about the closing of the iconic Bagel Factory. Soon after, Sharon Breiner Waltrip saw the article on Facebook and commented:
“I have...
Samantha Fomera and Avi Mazzeo have been accepted into the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Jewish Ideas Fellowship for 2024-25.
They are two of 24 members of the cohort, where...
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis has unveiled its 2025 award winners, who will be celebrated during the Evening of Impact on Feb. 19 at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.
Honorees include...
