TEL AVIV — It only took a few minutes from the time the rocket fire from Gaza began on the morning of Oct. 7 for Karen Tal to field her first of many phone calls and messages with terrible news.
The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 29, 2024
The Broadway revival of "Funny Girl" is at the Fabulous Fox Theatre until Feb. 4. If you attend, look for actress Eileen T'Kaye in the role of "Mrs. Strakosh," a Jewish woman and neighbor of Fanny...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 29, 2024
Just before the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry opens each day, a line of cars appears. The drivers wait patiently for their turn to pick up food.
The pantry, operated by Jewish Family Services,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 28, 2024
During her eight-year tenure as Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), Maharat Rori Picker Neiss regularly scheduled coffee meetings as a way to forge relationships, cultivate...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 28, 2024
(JTA) — In the four months since the Hamas attacks on Israel touched off war in Gaza, Jewish protesters have joined demonstrations in the streets of New York, San Francisco and other cities condemning...
KIBBUTZ HAZOREA, Israel — Fifteen young men and women, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings and to each other, dance around a bucolic field, twisting their bodies to trance music blasting through...
Israeli actor-singer-songwriter Idan Amedi, best known for starring in the hit Netflix show “Fauda,” recounted to reporters on Thursday his experience fighting in Gaza and the blast that had him hospitalized...
Life changed dramatically for millions in Israel on 7th October 2023 and one of them was Inbar Haiman, a young student attending a Peace Festival in the Negev desert that weekend.
Caught up in the attack,...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 25, 2024
As Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches on Jan. 27, a cross-section of Missouri schools are using a new framework for Holocaust education. The pilot program of up to 25 school districts is the result of...
CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 25, 2024
The Zone of Interest” is the euphemism the Nazis used to describe the area around the Auschwitz concentration camp, including where the SS Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig lived with...
You cannot make peace with people who do not want peace’
No doubt, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen believed sincerely in their own good intentions when they passed their resolution last week calling...
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