Father’s Day — like Mother’s Day — is one of those holidays that can change the way you celebrate it as you grow older. When we’re young, it’s about honoring dad for, well, being dad, and letting...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published June 15, 2023
(JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker”...
(JTA) – A Missouri school board is preparing to vote next week on whether to ban Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus” — even though no parent in the district has challenged it.
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Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 14, 2023
On Tuesday, June 13, Jewish Light published a story by freelancer Bill Motchan about Congregation Shaare Emeth launching a “Banned Book Club” later this month. Club participants will discuss important...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 14, 2023
Nadav Tamir, the executive director of J Street Israel, visited St. Louis on June 13 to speak on the topic of “Israel at a Crossroads.” Tamir was previously Israeli consulate general to New England...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 14, 2023
Gender identity and Judaism is the theme of an upcoming Bais Abraham Congregation summer speaker series.
Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael will discuss Allyship as a mitzvah on June 21, and Rabbi Garth Silberstein...
By Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 14, 2023
Missouri is among a handful of states where book banning is most prevalent, according to the reading advocacy group PEN America.
On June 27, Congregation Shaare Emeth will launch a new “Banned Book...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 13, 2023
June is Pride Month! There a plenty of ways to celebrate being LGBTQ+, loving someone who is LGBTQ+ and being Jewish with joy and plenty of rainbows. Here are many ways to celebrate.
Temple Emanuel
Lunch...
The St. Louis Jewish Community Center’s biannual Used Book Sale returns to the Staenberg Family Complex Arts & Education Building from Sunday, August 27 – Thursday, August 31. Patrons can stock...
NCJWSTL will team up with Fox 2 for their "Founder’s Day of Community Service."
Fox’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group, created the annual program to celebrate the company’s anniversary by...
LA PLATA, Argentina (JTA) — Israel won third place in the U-20 World Cup on Sunday, capping a historic run in its first-ever appearance at the tournament by beating South Korea 3-1.
Local Jews and...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 11, 2023
A full house gathered at The Focal Point listening room in Maplewood on Sunday afternoon, June 11, to hear a Klezmer concert provided by the new U. City Klezmer Experience.
The band was led by Will...
