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...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 23, 2024
The renovation of the Jewish Community Center’s Marilyn Fox Building is underway with significant changes already visible. Those updates will be on display at a donor event on Monday evening, June 24.
Construction...
On June 30, Brian Herstig will no longer be Jewish Federation of St. Louis president and CEO. In March, he announced that he was resigning his position so that he and his wife, Barb, and their two young...
Workers at Jewish Family Services are trying to form a union, citing a need for improved work conditions and stronger employee protections at the nonprofit social services agency.
They are organizing...
As a teen growing up in St. Louis, Laurie Cohen remembers how excited she was when she got to visit family in New York and her uncle would take her to apparel houses in Manhattan’s garment center. There,...
After 21 years at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, Patty Bloom is going out on her own. She was most recently the director of admissions and marketing.
BLOOM Strategies for Growing, her new company,...
Andrea Newstead has been promoted to director of operations at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School.
She was previously the director of technology and will now oversee marketing and communications,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 18, 2024
Since the Anti-Defamation League released its first-ever Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April, universities across the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in antisemitic incidents and hostile...
(JTA) — A Missouri judge upheld the state’s abortion ban Friday, rejecting efforts by a group of 14 interfaith clergy, including rabbis, who sought to protect reproductive rights by suing the state...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 17, 2024
Nothing says "possibility" more than a blank wall. So, when the 57-year-old Crown Center senior living facility in University City received a $1 million donation from philanthropists Michael and Carol...
MOLLY LEVIN, JEWISH LIGHT INTERN
• Published June 17, 2024
As school lets out, many teenagers are eager to find a summer job. From fast food restaurants to car washes, countless places of employment are available for teenagers to work. Many, however, choose to...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 17, 2024
In 1960, when Mossad agent Peter Zvi Malkin led a team to capture the notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, his cover was that of an ordinary tourist. To maintain this facade, Malkin carried...