Shavuot at B'nai Amoona
May 25 - May 27
B'nai Amoona
Thursday, May 25 - Erev Shavuot
7:45 pm: Minchah/Ma'ariv
7:57 pm: Candle Lighting
8:10-8:55 pm: Study Session with Rabbi Abraham -"Active...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 23, 2023
When Esther Miller Bais Yaakov (EMBY) High School seniors began learning about the Vietnam War, social studies teacher Bradley Durnell knew exactly how to supplement the textbook lessons. He asked eight...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 22, 2023
Jewish St. Louisan Burton Boxerman wrote many scholarly articles on American Jewish history and co-authored, with his wife Benita, five books on baseball history including two volumes on Jews and baseball.
Burton,...
Rabbi Joseph Fred Benson*
• Published May 22, 2023
Where does one begin in discussing who Burton Boxerman was? Perhaps one should begin this late spring day of remembering Burton doing 168 laps in his pool every morning during the warm months of the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 21, 2023
How to support LGBTQ+ Youth through a Jewish lens will the focus of an upcoming virtual panel on Tuesday, May 23. The event is presented by Camp Ben Frankel and the Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois,...
The Jewish Light is now requesting nominations for its 14th annual Unsung Heroes awards. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. Friday, July 7 and can be made online.
The Light solicits nominations...
Tuesday, May 23 marks another round of “Coffee Talk with SnL,” the nearly three-year-old gathering of local St. Louis voices hosted by National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis’ Past President,...
(JTA) – The mayor of a Missouri town has apologized for saying a local trash company is “not trying to Jew anybody” at a recent public meeting, writing in an open letter that the remark was “not...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 18, 2023
The St. Louis Zoo has released its plans for a new experience for children and families on site of the current Emerson Dinoroarus, formerly Emerson Children’s Zoo.
“Thanks to an incredibly generous...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 18, 2023
In the fall of 2021, while updating the database of more than 7,000 burial records of the 180-plus- year-old United Hebrew Cemetery, it was discovered that many graves in the Memorial Garden section lacked...
TEL AVIV — Young people with substance-abuse dependencies often face a stark challenge when trying to overcome their problem: Any kind of lapse is seen as a failure, and if they backslide even occasionally...
JERUSALEM — Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive Torah study in this city that symbolizes the beating heart of the Jewish...
