Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 28, 2024
From the Yiddish, "Etlekhe zakhn ir nor ton nit balagan mit" which means "There are things you just don't mess with," our friends from Philadelphia Cream Cheese are "messing."
Last month, the famed...
JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTA
• Published February 28, 2024
(JTA) — Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their families will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.”
Presented annually...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 27, 2024
A large blue-and-white ribbon paying tribute to the Israeli hostages will be unveiled at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 4 at 11557 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur. A community ceremony will accompany the introduction...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 26, 2024
As reports of antisemitic incidents rise, including at many high schools around the country, a group of Jewish students at Clayton High School decided to organize an event to help their fellow teens...
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...
