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Student Senate tables WashU divestment resolution regarding Boeing-Israel

Student Senate tables WashU divestment resolution regarding Boeing-Israel

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 6, 2024

The Washington University Student Union Senate has decided to table, until further notice, a resolution that was in consideration calling for the university to divest from the Boeing Company. The student...

The late Mimi Edlin (left) founded the  Joseph J. Edlin Memorial Summer Journalism Internship in memory of her husband (right), who was a past president of the Jewish Light Board of Directors.

Light seeks applicants for Edlin Summer Journalism Internship

Published March 6, 2024

The St. Louis Jewish Light is accepting applications for its Joseph J. Edlin Memorial Summer Journalism Internship.  The late Mimi Edlin and her family established the scholarship to honor her late husband,...

Apply Now: Funding for projects combating hate, promoting understanding now available

Apply Now: Funding for projects combating hate, promoting understanding now available

Published March 6, 2024

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum opened the spring funding cycle for the Rubin and Gloria Feldman Family Educational Institute. Interested individuals and organizations can apply for funds...

Addir Mesika and Morielle Lotan (Courtesy)

A new competition will grant a $1 million prize for technology to fight antisemitism

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished March 6, 2024

(JTA) — When Morielle Lotan learned that her nephew, Addir Mesika, had sacrificed his life to save others during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the consultant to climate tech startups and investors...

Amy Lampert

Amy Lampert takes on new role for Women’s Philanthropy Board

Published March 5, 2024

Amy Lampert was recently installed as the new chair of the Women’s Philanthropy board at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis for a three-year term. A member of Temple Israel, she is vice president and...

Chance conversation reveals quirky connection  between Parkway North and Jewish camp careers

Chance conversation reveals quirky connection between Parkway North and Jewish camp careers

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished March 5, 2024

Don’t you just love happy coincidences? I know I do, especially when one coincidence connects to another that connects to another – like some kind of coincidence chain reaction, perhaps even worthy...

Team 29 featuring: Dani Berg, Jason Berg, Bryan Berg, Abigail Berg, Matt Bukhshtaber, Anna Bukhshtaber, Samantha Katzman, Danny Katzman. Chad Klamen, Rachel Deutsch and Scott Yaffe.

‘Team 29’ reigns supreme at ‘Battle of the Stars,’ raising beaucoup bucks for J programs

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 5, 2024

Nothing like a little friendly competition to bring an entire community together. That was the premise for the "Battle of the Stars," the new event fundraiser from J Associates, the women’s auxiliary...

German emigrants boarding a ship at the port of Hamburg.

Documentary tracing 350 years of Jewish migration to air in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 5, 2024

"You survive, you honor us by living,” Martin Greenfield’s father once told him. Greenfield recalled these words after his liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp. This...

The remarkable Jewish story of the iconic Culpeppers and the famous 'sign on the door'

The remarkable Jewish story of the iconic Culpeppers and the famous ‘sign on the door’

Dr. Harley Hammermann, Special To The Jewish LightPublished March 5, 2024

Culpeppers was started by five Country Day friends in 1934 and progressed through multiple owners until Herb Glazier bought it in 1977. Click here to read the complete history of Culpeppers on Dr. Harley...

Holocaust survivor Ben Stern (blue shirt) leads 200 marchers in the "Bay Area Rally Against Hate" in Berkeley in August 2017. He is linking arms with his daughter Charlene Stern and Rabbi Menachem Creditor; Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley is at far left. (Rob Gloster/J.)

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102

Alix Wall, JTAPublished March 5, 2024

(J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California via JTA) — Ben Stern, who survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches only to confront Nazi sympathizers in his adopted America,...

‘Ribbon of Hope’ to stand tall in St. Louis until hostages released

‘Ribbon of Hope’ to stand tall in St. Louis until hostages released

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished March 4, 2024

Nearly 100 members of the St. Louis community gathered in Creve Coeur Monday to mark 150 days since the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel. They gathered for the unveiling of “Ribbon of Hope,” a display...

St. Louis premiere of ‘Four Winters’ unveils Jewish women’s armed resistance during Holocaust

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 4, 2024

For more than a decade, filmmaker Julia Mintz meticulously crafted her award-winning documentary “Four Winters” to challenge existing myths surrounding Jewish survival during...

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