Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 9, 2024
The St. Louis Jewish Community Center (the J) has named Steven Rosenzweig as its new president and CEO, effective in late November. A longtime leader in the St. Louis nonprofit sector, Rosenzweig returns...
The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
The statement on Tuesday...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 7, 2024
When Jewish Light first featured Sam Loiterstein in 2017, he was a seventh grader teaching chess to students in Ferguson and donating chess sets from his bar mitzvah. Loiterstein’s dedication to community...
Ellen Futterman and Jordan Palmer
• Published October 7, 2024
More than 1,500 people came together Monday night, Oct. 7, at the Jewish Community Center near Creve Coeur, while others joined remotely, to remember the thousands of Israelis murdered and the 101...
The past few cultural events that I have attended as well as the art, music and even food that I have enjoyed lately point out that the world is shrinking and coming together in mostly positive ways.
Some...
LEAD STL, formerly Cultural Leadership, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting “transformative social change” in the greater St. Louis area, with a special focus on the Black and Jewish experiences, has...
WASHINGTON — Jewish government officials are being targeted with antisemitic attacks in a misinformation blitz hampering efforts to get critical information out to victims of Hurricane Helene in North...
Naama Herz is a 19-year-old Israeli woman from Kibbutz Ramot Menashe. She returned to Israel in late August after spending a year in St. Louis as part of the Shinshinim program, which was sponsored by...
One year ago, Jews around the world awoke to learn of a horrific event. The Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, accounted for the largest number of Jews killed in a single day since the Holocaust....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 5, 2024
On Saturday, Oct. 5, a group of about a dozen masked men gathered on an overpass in Town and Country, displaying Nazi symbols. Dressed in black and carrying flags emblazoned with swastikas and other white...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 3, 2024
The Loewenstein family takes the concept of l’dor v’dor to heart. Rob Loewenstein, 89, has been blowing shofar on Rosh Hashanah for 79 years. Arnold Weiss, his great-uncle, blew shofar in the 1920s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 2, 2024
Six13, the popular Jewish a cappella group, has released a new video just in time for Rosh Hashanah 5785. Known for its creative parodies, Six13 presents "5785," a playful twist on Bowling for Soup’s...
