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Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman (left) and Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski

Rabbi and Archbishop will speak at ‘Good Neighbors’ event

Published April 6, 2023

The entire community is invited to join us for a groundbreaking evening of dialogue and friendship as Congregation Shaare Emeth welcomes Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, the Archbishop of the Diocese of St....

David Makovsky

WashU Hillel to host David Makovsky to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Published April 6, 2023

Hillel at Washington University (WashU Hillel) will host policy expert David Makovsky for a lecture entitled, “Israel, Palestinians & the Arab World: What is Truly Attainable?” on Wednesday, April...

Rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel escalates tensions

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished April 6, 2023

(JTA) — Dozens of rockets fired from Lebanon hit Israel’s north in a significant escalation of tensions that followed clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshipers at a Jerusalem holy site. Israel’s...

Five questions for science comedian Ben Miller coming to Helium comedy club

Five questions for science comedian Ben Miller coming to Helium comedy club

BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished April 6, 2023

Jewish stand-up comedian Ben Miller works in a somewhat unusual genre of comedy. He uses science as the jumping-off point. This makes sense, since the New York-based comedian entered the entertainment...

WashU freshman tasked with finding the stories within 10,000 Judaica books, and loving it

WashU freshman tasked with finding the stories within 10,000 Judaica books, and loving it

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 4, 2023

Bram Hoffman is knee-deep in books. He is in a dimly lit back room at Dunaway Books, one of the largest independent bookstores in St. Louis located at 3111 S. Grand Ave. Stacks upon stacks of cardboard...

Lauren Brenner

Lauren Brenner elected as new Chair of ADL Heartland

Published April 4, 2023

The ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) Heartland regional office announced the election of Lauren Brenner as Chair of the ADL Heartland Regional Advisory Board.  “We are extremely fortunate to have a...

PHOTO Courtesy of JTA

Passover at Rikers Island: How the notorious jail complex holds a seder for Jewish inmates

Jacob Henry, JTAPublished April 4, 2023

(New York Jewish Week) — Miriam Tohill, a Jewish chaplain intern at Rikers Island, is looking forward to co-leading Passover seders for Jewish inmates this year for the first time. But conditions at...

Herman “Herm” Shelanski (far right), then skipper of the squadron on the USS John C. Stennis, celebrating Passover in 2008 on the ship with chaplain Rabbi Irving Elson (holding matzah) and Executive Officer Captain Ron Reis (next to the left). Credit: Courtesy of Vice Adm. (Ret.) Herman Shelanski.

Passover in the US Navy and “helicopter matzah incident”

By Menachem Wecker, JNSPublished April 4, 2023

(JNS) The Torah reserves some of its most elegant poetry for nautical phenomena amid the Red Sea parting. Exodus 15 describes the “heart of the sea” and Divine nostrils blowing “majestic” waters....

Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses the nation on March 15, 2023. Credit: YouTube.

Herzog resumes judicial reform compromise talks

Published April 3, 2023

(JNS) Israeli President Isaac Herzog resumed talks on Monday with Knesset factions aimed at hammering out a compromise on judicial reform. The president again hosted working teams representing the ruling...

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Dec. 19, 2022.

Israel’s attorney general says Netanyahu is not in contempt of court

Published April 3, 2023

(JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not in contempt of court when he allegedly violated a conflict of interest arrangement, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said on Monday. Baharav-Miara...

Participants on a rabbis' trip to Israel organized by UJA-Federation of New York pause on the steps of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, March 17, 2023. (Courtesy of UJA-Federation)

With Israel in turmoil, group of US rabbis visits with a mission: to listen and learn

Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAPublished April 3, 2023

Over the last few weeks, while Israel has been roiled by demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands, and President Isaac Herzog has warned about the possibility of civil war, American Jews have been...

Seymour Stein with David Byrne and Madonna in 1996. (KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images)

Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80

Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished April 3, 2023

(JTA) — Seymour Stein, one of the most influential music executives of the 20th century, who frequently throughout his career referred to his Jewish Brooklynite roots, died at 80 on Sunday at his home...

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