By BILL MOTCHAN and Jordan Palmer
• Published April 7, 2025
A common fantasy for many teenagers is becoming a rock star.
There are plenty of Jewish role models: Drake, Billy Joel, Lenny Kravitz, Pink, Bob Dylan. Alas, success as a performing musician is an elusive...
Annie Klein will step into the spotlight as a bat mitzvah at Congregation B’nai Amoona on June 28. That evening, friends and family from around the world will gather at the Shack in Chesterfield for...
Thirty years ago, in a town most Americans had never heard of, one of the worst atrocities since the Holocaust unfolded. On April 6, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will help make sure the...
The Ukraine war is now in its third year. But while headlines about the conflict — and about Jewish communities caught in the middle — have become fewer and farther between, the need hasn’t disappeared....
Bill Motchan, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 3, 2025
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis celebrated its annual evening of impact on Wednesday, April 2, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum with more than 100 people in attendance.
Federation...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 2, 2025
The demand for affordable housing for older adults is constantly growing. The St. Louis Jewish community long ago recognized that need and has provided a variety of options. They include Covenant Place,...
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri recently honored the legacy of the late Honorable Richard B. Teitelman with a special dedication ceremony.
The 15th-floor conference room at Peabody Plaza was renamed...
In less than a week, “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder” is back—bigger, better and more soulful than ever. This one-of-a-kind celebration is happening Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open...
Sydney Reynolds, manager of youth programs at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center’s Creve Coeur campus, was selected as one of 11 to participate in the third cohort of the Martin Pear Israel Fellowship.
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Lana Zucker, a senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, was named one of South Tech’s STARs in Early Childhood Education.
The STAR program allows staff and students to show their appreciation...
As part of its monthly educational series, the Law Library Association of St. Louis, a public and membership law library located in the Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis, is presenting a program...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 2, 2025
My son, Leo, just turned 18. My youngest. My baby. Even though he will always be my baby, to the world he is a legal adult. I have two legal adult children. Old people have adult children, and I’m not...
