Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 25, 2024
The interconnectedness and unity found within the St. Louis Jewish community is being celebrated by JProSTL, a Jewish Federation of St. Louis initiative that offers a professional association...
The “Pollard Affair,” as it came to be known, was one of the most significant upheavals in the history of American-Israeli government relations. An American Jewish U.S. intelligence officer with a...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2024
Everyday life changed radically for all Israelis on Oct. 7, and especially for Rohn Harir. The 21-year-old IDF medic was seriously injured in an attack on his unit. With only one week remaining on his...
Esther Miller Bais Yaakov High School (EMBY) will honor Rabbi Ze’ev and Chani Smason at its 28th Anniversary Dinner on March 10 at the Clayton Plaza Hotel, starting at 5 p.m. In addition, Zahava List...
(JTA) — At least one Israeli was killed in an early morning shooting attack on the highway leading from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim to Jerusalem.
Eleven others were wounded...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 21, 2024
The story of the SS St. Louis is a tragic chapter in the history of the Holocaust. The St. Louis was a German ocean liner carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939. The ship sought...
Menachem Wecker, JNS
• Published February 21, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden’s Feb. 1 executive order, imposing sanctions on “persons undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank,” runs 1,699 words. None of those words is “Jerusalem.”
Sen. Tom...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published February 21, 2024
Iconic fashion designer Michael Kors, who is Jewish, is coming to St. Louis this spring for St. Louis Fashion Fund’s “Speaking of Fashion” series in partnership with Washington University...
By Avital Vorobeychik Junior, Epstein Hebrew Academy/Kadimah High School
• Published February 21, 2024
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to visit Israel. Even before visiting, I knew that one day I would want to live there. Something about the fact that there’s a place that’s specifically...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 20, 2024
Since Oct. 7, former Israeli intelligence officer Avi Melamed has been a busy man, working to give more people context and a full understanding of the Israel-Hamas war.
Melamed, the founder of the...
Britain’s Prince William released a statement on Tuesday calling for more aid into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as well as the release of the remaining 134 Israeli hostages being held by Palestinian...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — For months, President Joe Biden has asked for — and Congress has debated — sending wartime foreign aid to Israel as it battles Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The...
