Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 26, 2024
We know not everyone in St. Louis can drop what they're doing and hop on a plane to New York at a moment's notice. That's why, when we learned about the intriguing new exhibition,...
National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis welcomed Elizabeth Welsh as its director of development.
She will oversee the annual campaign, grant program, special events, tributes and all other fundraising...
(JTA) — The superintendent of a school district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas recently agreed within minutes to a conservative group’s demands to remove 676 books, including some seminal texts...
Abbi Marks-Mazur is the new director of admissions and enrollment at Mirowitz. She is responsible for recruitment, admissions, retention, family engagement and community events.
Marks-Mazur is a member...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 25, 2024
Tennis is a popular after-school activity at Central Institute for the Deaf (CID). It began in 2005 at the Central West End institution and was the brainchild of late Jewish St. Louisan Paul Mendelson....
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 25, 2024
Brad Hartman has worked in kitchens all over the world. He was also at one time the owner of Pumpernickle’s deli in Creve Coeur. Recently, he was named head chef at the Jewish Community Center.
Hartman,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 25, 2024
From his childhood bedroom in University City to the bustling political scene of Washington, D.C., Gabe Fleisher has embarked on a remarkable journey in life and journalism. Now age 22 and a...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 24, 2024
A donor event was held at the JCC’s Marilyn Fox Building on Monday, June 24 to show supporters the progress of the renovation effort in progress at the facility. Construction began April with completion...
GEORGIA BLAND, JUNIOR, LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL
• Published June 24, 2024
Changing the community and spreading knowledge one presentation at a time, St. Louis Jewish teens with Student to Student light up classrooms by sharing what it's like to be a Jewish teen growing up in...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 24, 2024
There are three judgments I will make with conviction and confidence that I am right, and you won’t ever be able to change my mind:
1. Listening to music selected by today’s teenagers makes me feel...
Starting July 1, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will begin a new, free art workshop entitled, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims.” Butterflies have long been...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published June 23, 2024
On Sunday, 18 Israeli children began their first American summer camp adventure at Camp Ben Frankel, a Jewish sleepaway camp located in Makanda, Ill., about two hours south of St. Louis. All of these...