For over a year, an image of the Bibas family in Batman pajamas symbolized the global call for their return from captivity in Gaza. This Purim, children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 12, 2025
For the second time in less than a week, a school in the Affton School District has been vandalized with racist graffiti, and police believe the two incidents may be connected. The latest act of vandalism...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 12, 2025
St. Louis' Women with Chutzpah, a new weekly feature, builds on our recent story about "Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women" by Julie Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer, which highlights...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 12, 2025
Ethan Katz, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, is set to give a lecture, "Zionism and Anti-Zionism: Beyond the Polemics," on March 25 at Washington University...
The University of Rochester Medical Center has recruited Dr. Ryan C. Fields to chair its department of surgery beginning July 1. He will serve as the Seymour I. Schwartz Professor in Surgery, surgeon-in-chief...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 11, 2025
Cream cheese isn’t just a spread—it’s a way of life. It’s so important that we once published an entire story about how cream cheese tells the story of Jews in America....
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published March 11, 2025
Once again, Camp Ben Frankel is asking the St. Louis Jewish community for its help.
Last summer, the camp launched an emergency fundraising campaign to try to bring up to 17 Israeli children affected...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published March 11, 2025
Forgive my Jerry Seinfeld impersonation, but what is the deal with egg prices?
I told my kids they can have a quiche or a college education. Pick one. Word has it the producers of “Wheel of Fortune”...
BY CAROLINE GOLDENBERG, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 11, 2025
A good neighbor is the kind you can ask for a cup of sugar, a better neighbor is the kind you can ask for a kidney. That’s what happened five years ago to Jimmy Fendelman. A friend and neighbor was desperately...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 10, 2025
If you’re a bagel lover in St. Louis, you’ve got plenty of choices. From longtime staples to newer bakeries, the city offers no shortage of fresh, hand-rolled bagels. But for those keeping kosher,...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published March 10, 2025
St. Louis’ newest bagel shop is now open. Bagels and Bliss at 8151 Delmar Blvd. in University City, is now selling a variety of freshly baked kosher bagels. Co-owners Giti Fredman and William Goldmeier...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published March 10, 2025
On a typical afternoon in University City, you don’t generally see a pink and blue shark, Wonder Woman, Popeye, CIA spies and a guy dressed as a Rubik’s Cube walking down the street together. Or Haman...