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Clayton police ask for help after cars torched, antisemitic graffiti found

Clayton police ask for help after cars torched, antisemitic graffiti found

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 8, 2025

The Clayton Police Department is asking for the public’s help as they work to solve a hate crime that shook a quiet neighborhood early Tuesday morning. Around 3 a.m. on August 5, three vehicles were...

From bias to bravery: ADL expands future leaders program amid rising hate

From bias to bravery: ADL expands future leaders program amid rising hate

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 8, 2025

Last December, we introduced readers to the Anti-Defamation League’s Glass Leadership Institute (GLI)—a program empowering young professionals to challenge antisemitism, dismantle bias and reshape...

Rabbi Tzemach and Mushka Cohen, along with their baby daughter Rivka

Meet the Cohens: New faces of Jewish connection at Chabad at WashU

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 8, 2025

There’s something familiar happening at Chabad at WashU this fall and it’s not just the return of Shabbat dinner lines out the door. Rabbi Tzemach and Mushka Cohen, along with their baby daughter Rivka,...

Jewish Federation of St. Louis President and CEO Danny Cohn speaks at a ribbon-cutting event at Covenant Place in March.

100 days in, new Jewish Federation leader is surprised, inspired by St. Louis Jewish life

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPublished August 8, 2025

When Danny Cohn stepped into his role as president and CEO of Jewish Federation of St. Louis in mid-March, he brought with him a deep love for Jewish communal work and an understanding that every community...

Danny Cohn, Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Federation of St. Louis

Danny Cohn’s alternate ambition?

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished August 7, 2025

That Danny Cohn is now president and CEO of Jewish Federation of St. Louis and, as he reports, is “loving it,” sometimes even surprises him.  As a kid, his dream wasn’t running a Federation, it...

Nate Daniels and Lewis DeWoskin

Two Parkway Central scouts tapped for national honor society

Published August 7, 2025

Nate Daniels, son of Meredith and Kevin Daniels, and Lewis DeWoskin, son of Laura and Henry DeWoskin, were elected into the Order of the Arrow, the national honor society of Scouting America (formerly...

Jake Edler

Jake Edler builds up Wildwood trails—and his scouting legacy

Published August 7, 2025

Jake Edler, son of Allison Katz-Edler, received the rank of Eagle in Scouting America Troop 310 and Venturing Crew 2627 in Ballwin. For his project, he laid a concrete pad and installed a bike repair...

Rabbi Dov Fink

Young Israel of St. Louis welcomes new rabbi

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished August 7, 2025

Young Israel recently welcomed Rabbi Dov Fink as senior rabbi, replacing Rabbi Moshe Shulman, who led the congregation for 18 years. Fink, a New Jersey native, officially assumed his duties on Friday,...

Lunchboxes, looseleaf and a longing for a New Year reset

Lunchboxes, looseleaf and a longing for a New Year reset

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished August 7, 2025

I never expected the little boy and his mom deciding on a lunchbox to transport me back in time. But he was a towhead just like my son Jackson at that age and the mom was a redhead just like me at that...

Understanding Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis

Understanding Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 7, 2025

Jewish cemeteries are full of clues: symbols, inscriptions, carvings. Many of us have seen them, but never truly read them. On Sunday, Aug. 24, the Jewish Special Interest Group of the St. Louis Genealogical...

Michele Steinberg, Marty Levy, Marti Zuckerman, Max Gornish, Holly Bernstein, Deborah Hirschfelder, Julie Hoffman, Harriet Turner, Marilyn K. Humiston and Nancy Litz.

Meet the Jewish Light’s 2025 Unsung Heroes

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPublished August 6, 2025

Ten standout individuals will be recognized as the 2025 Jewish Light Unsung Heroes on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 3:30 p.m. This year’s 16th annual event will take place at Jewish Community Center near Creve...

Antisemitic graffiti found after vehicle fires in Clayton; investigation underway

Antisemitic graffiti found after vehicle fires in Clayton; investigation underway

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 5, 2025

Detectives with the Clayton Police Department are investigating three suspicious vehicle fires as a targeted hate crime. The cars were set ablaze early Tuesday morning, Aug. 5, and antisemitic graffiti...

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