Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 29, 2025
The Brothers Lazaroff are back with their signature series of intimate Tuesday concerts, showcasing their unique sound across St. Louis’ most cherished venues. Known for their...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 28, 2025
On Jan. 22, nearly 30 representatives from 15 Jewish organizations and synagogues across St. Louis gathered at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City for Missouri Jewish Advocacy Day. Their mission...
Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week, a date that would make the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump’s residence...
Karyn Lisker has joined the Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry as a clinical research coordinator. She is working on a clinical trial regarding addiction.
In addition,...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 28, 2025
The podcast "How to Destroy Everything" is coming home to St. Louis for a one-night event. Jewish St. Louisans Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky, who created the podcast, will be featured in a live show...
Native St. Louisan Rabbi Josh Scharff recently received his rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.
He is currently...
Center for Israel Education, israeled.org
• Published January 27, 2025
Jan. 27, 2006 — U.N. Holds First Holocaust Remembrance Day
The first U.N.-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The president...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 27, 2025
“I will cherish this deeply.”
Those were the words of David Yawitz on Sunday, Jan. 26, after he was presented with a proclamation honoring another Yawitz—First Lieutenant Frank Yawitz, who died...
(JTA) — Keith Siegel, an American taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, will reportedly be released in the coming days as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
The report on NBC News, citing Israeli sources,...
(JTA) — Hamas released four hostages on Saturday in a choreographed ceremony in Gaza, making them the second group of captives to go free in the ceasefire that began earlier this week.
The four hostages...
Ten Jewish professionals and one lay leader will be honored at the 20th Annual JProStl Recognition Event on Thursday, March 6. The event will take place in the gymnasium of the Staenberg Family Complex...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 24, 2025
For the past several years, I’ve sat at a table in a conference room of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum and read the names of Holocaust victims aloud for 15 minutes. It’s only 15 minutes—a...
