Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 27, 2025
Some people make New Year’s resolutions. I make summer resolutions. This year’s list? Avoid dairy, sodium and carbs—basically, anything that tastes good. So yes, I’ll be enjoying Shavuot from a...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 27, 2025
A week after tornadoes tore through parts of St. Louis, Temple Emanuel did what Jewish communities have done for generations—showed up, opened hearts, and filled a truck.
On Saturday, May 24,...
Jewish St. Louis Senior Olympians competing in the ice hockey accuracy shootout took the top three spots in the new event in the 2025 games.
Marc Oberman grabbed the gold medal and Monte Sandler captured...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published May 27, 2025
Two St. Louis Senior Olympics volunteers love sports and plan to enter the competition, but not for another 30-plus years.
Owen Whalen, 18, and Jake Goldfarb, 17, could be seen at multiple 2025 St....
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published May 27, 2025
Powerlifting grandmother Jaime “Jai-Jai” Goldstein now has amassed more than 250 medals and trophies, including five golds and one silver in the 2025 St. Louis Senior Olympics.
Goldstein, who was...
The father-son team of Harvey and Brad Wallace captured the gold medal in the St. Louis Senior Olympics racquetball doubles competition. It represented a repeat performance in the top spot from 2024 in...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published May 26, 2025
For more than 40 years, St. Louis area scouts have placed flags at Jewish veterans’ graves on Memorial Day weekend.
“We have 400 scouts participating at every Jewish cemetery today,” said Steve...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ronen Bergman is coming to St. Louis as the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation’s 2nd Annual Men’s Event on Wednesday, June 18, at The...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published May 26, 2025
A solemn ceremony at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum on Sunday, May 25, marked Memorial Day 2025.
Jewish War Veterans Post 644 hosted the event, which featured a presentation by Rabbi...
If you’re of a certain age and Jewish and aren’t familiar with Judy Gold, well, sorry, but that seems wrong.
For more than 40 years, this 6-foot-2 comedy force of nature has been making audiences...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 22, 2025
St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 22, 2025
It started with a name. A quiet plaque on the “Wall of Honor” at Congregation Temple Israel, tucked across from the sanctuary, honoring Alvin Yale Esrock. It was dedicated by his brother, Elmer—and...
