Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 21, 2024
The St. Louis Jewish Community Center’s biannual Used Book Sale returns to the Staenberg Family Complex Arts & Education Building from Sunday, Jan. 28 – Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Patrons can once...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 18, 2024
Jewish Federation of St. Louis, the St. Louis Jewish Light and the St. Louis Jewish Community Center are hosting a Jewish community night with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. So, what will the night...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 18, 2024
Picture your childhood neighborhood, your long-time home, now gone. This is the real-life experience of award-winning St. Louis author Vivian Gibson.
Gibson grew up in...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 18, 2024
In 2005, Dr. Robert “Bob” and Judy Hellman were moved by the Passover sermon from a visiting spiritual leader at Young Israel.
The visiting rabbi was their son, Rabbi David Hellman, and his sermon...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three weeks after her cousin was abducted and taken to Gaza along with her family, Yifar Zailer said she knew one thing for sure: “I don’t want to be here in two months, celebrating...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 18, 2024
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against...
Molly Levine, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2024
An ocean away from the atrocities occurring in Gaza, college campuses across the United States act as a hotspot for debate, protest and to many Jewish students’ dismay, antisemitism.
After the Oct....
Each year on Jan. 27, the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet soldiers. This year, the St. Louis Kaplan...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2024
Nearly 80 attendees gathered on Weds. evening, Jan. 17 at Washington University for the first 2024 event in the Ignite YP Staenberg Speaker Series. The guest speaker was especially familiar with the facility—Amy...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 17, 2024
Some St. Louis Jewish leaders are reacting to the recent vote by the St. Louis Board of Alderman calling on President Joe Biden to work toward a cease-fire in Israel's war with Hamas.
The unanimous...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 17, 2024
Our 2023 Unsung Hero Elizabeth “Betty” Baumgartner's story continues to inspire.
Baumgartner, a Dual Language Teacher at Dorris Intermediate School in Collinsville, Illinois was recognized by the...
It’s a beautiful, cloudless day. The temperature is a perfect 75 degrees, and the December sun is causing me to sweat as I cut another clementine from the tree and put it in the bag draped across my...
