On Monday, Partners in Torah, a weekly program run by the St. Louis Kollel, Aish Hatorah, and Ignite, hosted a special memorial event to commemorate the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks and to pray and perform...

Professor, author/filmmaker and social justice champion Rick Stack, a St. Louis native and 2021 University City High School Hall of Fame inductee, is channeling his lifelong commitment to social justice...

At a recent gathering of friends and family, Lilly Opinsky celebrated her 25th birthday with a barbecue in her parents' backyard. "We have learned over the years to try to enjoy and appreciate each...

The St. Louis Jewish Community Center (the J) has named Steven Rosenzweig as its new president and CEO, effective in late November. A longtime leader in the St. Louis nonprofit sector, Rosenzweig returns...

The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”  The statement on Tuesday...

When Jewish Light first featured Sam Loiterstein in 2017, he was a seventh grader teaching chess to students in Ferguson and donating chess sets from his bar mitzvah. Loiterstein’s dedication to community...

More than 1,500 people came together Monday night, Oct. 7, at the Jewish Community Center near Creve Coeur, while others joined remotely, to remember the thousands of Israelis murdered and the 101...

The past few cultural events that I have attended as well as the art, music and even food that I have enjoyed lately point out that the world is shrinking and coming together in mostly positive ways. Some...

LEAD STL, formerly Cultural Leadership, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting “transformative social change” in the greater St. Louis area, with a special focus on the Black and Jewish experiences, has...

WASHINGTON — Jewish government officials are being targeted with antisemitic attacks in a misinformation blitz hampering efforts to get critical information out to victims of Hurricane Helene in North...

Naama Herz is a 19-year-old Israeli woman from Kibbutz Ramot Menashe. She returned to Israel in late August after spending a year in St. Louis as part of the Shinshinim program, which was sponsored by...

One year ago, Jews around the world awoke to learn of a horrific event. The Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, accounted for the largest number of Jews killed in a single day since the Holocaust....