Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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,...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published 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...
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, 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, 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...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published 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,...
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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...