The Jewish Federation of St. Louis has announced the award winners to be honored at the 2023 Impact Breakfast to be held on Thursday, March 30. Shira Berkowitz and Elliott Kleiman have been chosen as the...

The Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis (JCRC) announces the retirement of Deputy Director Cheryl Adelstein after over four years of passionate and dedicated service to advancing social justice...

Actor Will Bonfiglio and director Ellie Schwetye are together again at the New Jewish Theatre. They have scored another triumph in “Every Brilliant Thing,” a one-act, one-actor show. In 2019, Schwetye...

Mention “Erich Weiss,” to a random St. Louisan, and you’re likely to get a shrug. But use Erich Weiss’s more famous adopted name—Harry Houdini—and you’ll get a different reaction. The most...

Irv Zeid Park at 9100 Old Bonhomme Drive is the easternmost of Olivette’s five parks. The five-acre park has undergone a major transformation in the past year. The makeover includes a new dog park, an...

Marc Schreiber, president of the St. Louis Sports Commission, has been busy planning upcoming events, including the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s April 8 match with the Republic of Ireland at...

Tuesday, March 21 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, Susan...

Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU Hillel) invites the community to join St. Louis area college students, faculty, and University staff for Kosher for Passover lunches and dinners throughout...

Matzah pajamas are back! The St. Louis Jewish Light first introduced its readers to Rabbi Yael Buechler who conceived of her PJs two years ago. “During the pandemic, since we weren’t going to be...

Nothing says "possibility" more than a blank wall. And last summer we had a lot of them inside the office space at the Jewish Light.  Then one day as the office was humming along with daily work, there...

Charitable giving continues to get easier and easier especially if you have the GiftAMeal app on your phone. GiftAMeal is the food-tech startup founded by Jewish social entrepreneur Andrew Glantz. Glantz,...

Growing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my grandparents married during the Nazi occupation. It was not a time for celebrations, particularly for Jewish families like theirs. Naively, though,...