Chelsea Leon will be moving into the role of special events manager in the Development Department of the Jewish Community Center (the J). She will be the point person for J’la, J Associates, and other...

Who doesn’t like a good laugh? That’s right, nobody. And while this somebody might not be a household name yet, she’s definitely drawing attention as a Jewish queer comedian/actor/hot person whose...

John Wesley Posey, son of Karen Flotte and John Posey, has achieved the Eagle Scout Rank. A senior at St. Louis University High School, his scout project was to plan and lead a group of volunteers in building...

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) officially kicked off her bid for re-election during an event held on Jan. 27 at the North Oaks Plaza in north St. Louis County. During the event, Bush made several...

Nothing like a little friendly competition to bring an entire community together. On second thought, who are we kidding? The battle is on, bragging rights are up for grabs,...

Help the farmers of Israel I came home to Israel from University City over 41 years ago. As a child I remember in 1967 and 1973 U.S. Jews getting on planes to help Israel when there was a manpower shortage...

An Israeli army reservist stumbled upon an ancient Assyrian scarab amulet while hiking in northern Israel’s Nahal Tabor Nature Reserve during a day off, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on...

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the Israeli economy has suffered, said Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Consul General of Israel on his visit to St. Louis this week. During an event sponsored and convened by the Jewish...

  The survival of Israel is critically important to the United States. That was a key message from a conversation between Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Mark Wilf, owner and president of...

Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of St. Louis-based Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc., has joined the board of Venture for America. This national entrepreneurship group places recent college graduates...

Tall, lean and ever so handsome, Yakir Hexter had all the right moves, especially when it came to “popping and locking.”  To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what popping and locking looked like...

JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri House of Representatives committee on Feb. 6 held a hearing on a pro-Israel resolution. Nearly 120 supporters of the resolution attended the hearing, including 100 students...