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Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy

Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy

Published April 2, 2025

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri recently honored the legacy of the late Honorable Richard B. Teitelman with a special dedication ceremony. The 15th-floor conference room at Peabody Plaza was renamed...

Thanks to all of you who attended the first annual Passover Project. It was all the brainchild of my colleague Ellen Futterman, and she rocked it.

St. Louis is getting ready for a rockin’ Passover celebration

Published April 2, 2025

In less than a week, “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder” is back—bigger, better and more soulful than ever. This one-of-a-kind celebration is happening Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open...

Sydney Reynolds

Sydney Reynolds named to prestigious Jewish leadership program

Published April 2, 2025

Sydney Reynolds, manager of youth programs at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center’s Creve Coeur campus, was selected as one of 11 to participate in the third cohort of the Martin Pear Israel Fellowship. ...

Lana Zucker

Ladue senior honored for big heart and dedication to kids

Published April 2, 2025

Lana Zucker, a senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, was named one of South Tech’s STARs in Early Childhood Education. The STAR program allows staff and students to show their appreciation...

The documentary ‘Prosecuting Evil’ looks at Ben Ferencz, a war crimes investigator and a prosecutor at the post-WWII Nuremberg trials.

St. Louis law library honors Nuremberg prosecutor who put Nazis on trial

Published April 2, 2025

As part of its monthly educational series, the Law Library Association of St. Louis, a public and membership law library located in the Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis, is presenting a program...

Empty nest, full heart: one Jewish mom’s hilarious, honest take on her kids growing up

Empty nest, full heart: one Jewish mom’s hilarious, honest take on her kids growing up

Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish LightPublished April 2, 2025

My son, Leo, just turned 18. My youngest. My baby. Even though he will always be my baby, to the world he is a legal adult. I have two legal adult children. Old people have adult children, and I’m not...

Margi Lenga Kahn’s recipe for Chraime

How Jewish families across the world celebrate Passover with unique fish dishes

By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 2, 2025

Passover, like other Jewish holidays, is steeped in tradition, especially when it comes to food. When most of us think of a traditional Passover meal, our menu would include gefilte fish, matzah ball soup,...

The unlikely WWII seder that reminded a Jewish sailor who he was, 80 years later

The unlikely WWII seder that reminded a Jewish sailor who he was, 80 years later

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 2, 2025

James Sherman had every reason to believe he was staying put, right here in St. Louis. In February 1944, he passed his military exam but figured, at 32, married with two kids, he wasn’t going anywhere....

Pres. Harry Truman from the “The Trials of Harry S. Truman,” by Jeffrey Frank

When Missouri’s own Harry S. Truman’s addressed Jewish troops for Passover 1945

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 2, 2025

In March 1945, with World War II nearing its end and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s health failing, Vice President Harry S. Truman stepped up to deliver a Passover message to Jewish troops serving...

Ken Dubinsky.

Mizzou athletes score big on coffee & chips—thanks to this Jewish St. Louis entrepreneur

Published April 1, 2025

Ken Dubinsky and his company, Haystack Sourcing Solutions, have partnered with Schnucks and Every True Tiger, to create Brew with the Crew premium coffee blends. Each of the six different bags features...

A Torah is held up overlooking alongside the shoreline of a lake in Colorado where a bar mitzvah is about to begin.

This former St. Louis rabbi leads bar mitzvahs in hiking boots—and it’s transforming Jewish tradition

By JIM WINNERMAN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 1, 2025

When Rabbi Alan Shavit-Lonstein was a first-year student at Washington University in 1984, he never expected he would be a rabbi conducting bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for a congregation of 340 families...

Aaron and Cynthia Vickar in the kichen of their Olivette home.

Historic charm meets personal style inside the Vickars’ Olivette dream home

STORY & PHOTOS By BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished April 1, 2025

If anyone asks for advice about renovating an old home, Aaron and Cynthia Vickar offer one key message: Be patient. The Vickars have lived in their 108-year-old Olivette stone house since 2012. The family,...

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