By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 16, 2025
A proposed Missouri law guarding against discrimination and antisemitism in public schools has moved to the next step in the legislative process. HB 937 passed the Higher Education and Workforce Development...
By Evy Lewis, St. Louis Public Radio & River City Journalism Fund
• Published March 14, 2025
The Missouri House passed several bills Thursday, including one that will broadly loosen car inspection requirements and another that would reduce the values used to calculate personal property taxes.
Both...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 13, 2025
The St. Louis County Police Department announced Thursday that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the racist grafitti incidents at two Affton School District schools. The St. Louis County Prosecuting...
Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNS
• Published March 13, 2025
Israel has invited Tesla to submit a bid for an official government electric vehicle tender, a senior Israeli official told JNS. The decision to consider Tesla vehicles for top officials is part of an...
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”...