Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 8, 2025
When the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum opens its doors on Sept. 28 for “Survivor Hour: Josh Schonfeld,” it won’t just be another lecture. This free community program offers a rare...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 8, 2025
In 2005, JGrads started on the Washington University campus with a few Shabbat dinners, a couple of ambitious grad students and the idea that St. Louis needed something more for Jewish graduate students.
The...
By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2025
Jews are the people of the Diaspora. Beginning in the first century, and then over and over again through the years and around the world, our people have been forced to leave their homes and scatter...
Stefani Pollack and Josh Allen are speaking at the International Baking Industry Exposition in Las Vegas, taking place Sept. 13-17.
Pollack, creator of Cupcake Project and founder of The Bake Fest,...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 5, 2025
A first-time visitor to the Jewish Community Center’s Marilyn Fox Building might not guess the facility is 28 years old. Inside and out, it looks brand new, following a comprehensive 15-month renovation....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 4, 2025
There must be something about high walls and hitting a ball as hard as you can that resonates with St. Louis Jews. In the 1970s and ’80s, Jewish racquetball champions helped put St. Louis on the national...
By Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 3, 2025
It’s so quiet. My house is so very quiet now that both kids are young men away at college.
I’ve woken up every morning for the last couple of weeks thinking about the number of days left having...
Robert Colton’s book, “The Mitzvah of Repentance,” was recently released. It is about a prominent St. Louis family who feel themselves obligated to take in a Holocaust survivor shortly after...
Dr. Jennifer Smith and attorney Tori Schafer will be honored on Sept. 9 as the 2025 Access MO Champions of Reproductive Justice.
They were instrumental in ensuring Missourians have constitutional protections...
Chabad Chesterfield Hebrew school is launching a monthly family program this fall, offering hands-on, interactive Jewish learning experiences that bring traditions like shofar making and matzah baking...
This year, Saturday Morning Bible Study will be divided into two parts, both from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. either in person at Temple Israel or on Zoom.
| RELATED: Rabbi Mark Shook honored for five decades...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published September 3, 2025
It should come as no surprise that many Jewish Light Unsung Heroes of the past continue to expand their volunteer repertoire with gusto. Take Susan K. Goldberg, a member of the Unsung Heroes Class of 2016...