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Let 'Tiles Tuesday' be your weekly Mah Jongg fix for fun and friendship in St. Louis

Let ‘Tiles Tuesday’ be your weekly Mah Jongg fix for fun and friendship in St. Louis

BY AMY FENSTER BROWN, Special To The Jewish LightPublished June 30, 2024

I. Love. Mah Jongg. Formerly a game where for your Bubbe and her blue-haired friends, Mah Jongg  is cool amongst the 40- and 50-something crowd. Tiles and numbers, symbols and strategy, rules and...

Despite the heat, Laz Jazz Fest ignites Grand Arts District

Despite the heat, Laz Jazz Fest ignites Grand Arts District

Bill Motchan, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 30, 2024

A diversity range of music was featured at the second Laz Jazz Fest on a steamy Saturday, June 29 at The Big Top in the Grand Arts District. The Jewish musicians David and Jeff Lazaroff created the...

Grandpa's Back Porch #1 by Edward Farber

How a Jewish kid from Clara Ave. became a ‘Picasso’ of nostalgia

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 28, 2024

The term "Renaissance man or woman" is one we should all aspire to be called at some point in our lives. It refers to someone exceptionally knowledgeable, skilled, and proficient...

Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman wipes away sweat while making a stump speech on the UT campus on Wednesday Setember. 28, 2005. Friedman said he thought it was an indication that he would win that he was able to draw a crowd in the brutal heat of the afternoon one of the hottest days of the year.

Remembering ‘Kinky’ Friedman, the ‘Texas Troubadour’ before his last St. Louis concert

Andrew Silow-Carroll / Barry GilbertPublished June 27, 2024

Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer and mystery novelist whose body of work often seemed like the un-kosher marriage of the Borscht Belt and the Bible Belt, died...

(L) Allora McCullough and (R) Dani Collette.

Craft Alliance shuts down exhibit over concerns about antisemitic imagery

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPublished June 26, 2024

Less than 24 hours after opening, Craft Alliance shut down its artist-in-residence exhibition for policy violations. “The artwork and titles contained antisemitic imagery and slogans calling for...

Brothers Lazaroff and a host of musicians will perform at “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder,” at City Winery on Thursday, April 18.

Jewish rockers bringing the sounds of New Orleans to St. Louis this weekend

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished June 26, 2024

Tickets are still available for Laz Jazz Fest, the music extravaganza created and curated by the Brothers Lazaroff. The festival is scheduled for Saturday, June 29 at The Big Top in the Grand Center Arts...

Laura Fields

From wellness guru to education champion: Laura Fields’ bold new role

Published June 26, 2024

Laura Fields is the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ new community coordinator for ElevatED, a program designed to test bold solutions for the recruitment and retention of early childhood educators. Field’s...

Barbecue brisket.

Seeking St. Louis barbecue experts for a unique Kosher BBQ contest in Memphis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 26, 2024

Are you a St. Louis barbecue enthusiast who’s already dusted off the grill and been busy perfecting your recipes to impress family and friends? How about showing off to the rest of the country? If that...

An illustration of Alfred Dreyfus on a horse. They are many people surrounding him, gesturing in the exact same way.

New partnership brings prestigious New York exhibit to Jewish Light readers

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 26, 2024

We know not everyone in St. Louis can drop what they're doing and hop on a plane to New York at a moment's notice. That's why, when we learned about the intriguing new exhibition,...

Elizabeth Welsh

NCJW-St. Louis welcomes new Director of Development

Published June 26, 2024

National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis welcomed Elizabeth Welsh as its director of development. She will oversee the annual campaign, grant program, special events, tributes and all other fundraising...

A man holds a copy of the graphic novel version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", by Israeli writer-director Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, in Paris Sept. 18, 2017. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas school district removes ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer,’ and 670 more after right-wing complaint

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished June 26, 2024

(JTA) — The superintendent of a school district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas recently agreed within minutes to a conservative group’s demands to remove 676 books, including some seminal texts...

Abbi Marks-Mazur

Abbi Marks-Mazur steps up at Mirowitz school

Published June 25, 2024

Abbi Marks-Mazur is the new director of admissions and enrollment at Mirowitz. She is responsible for recruitment, admissions, retention, family engagement and community events. Marks-Mazur is a member...

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