(JTA) — As images of starving children in Gaza continue to circulate and the international outcry grows louder, a number of American rabbis used their pulpits this past Shabbat to speak up about the...

The last word of the title is surprising in “Two Jews Walk Into a War…” The opening words suggest the last one will be “bar” and that a joke will follow. Playwright Seth Rozin thwarts only the...

When Flora Cassen first came across the name Joseph Ha-Kohen, she was researching her first book on how Jews in Renaissance Italy were forced to wear yellow badges and hats — visible symbols of exclusion...

If you’re a sports fan—and especially if you’re a Jewish one—you already know that the box score rarely tells the whole story. Now on display at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, "Triumph...

When I saw Scott Lefton's post, I froze. A wave of memory came rushing back with just a few words: “Ralph’s still cutting hair.” Ralph Clausner. My barber. Or more precisely — the man who gave...

As you get ready to celebrate your b'nai mitzvah, chances are you’ve started to think more about responsibility, growing up—and maybe even what to do with the money gifts you’ll receive. This moment...

Five years after the pandemic forced families to trade dance floors for Zoom screens, bar and bat mitzvah celebration parties are back in full swing — with a twist. From tech-forward experiences and...

A key cast member in an upcoming production of “The Second Hurricane” is a Jewish St. Louis actor and musician. Bryn Sentnor will play the role of Gwen in the youth opera by Jewish composer Aaron Copeland....

The last time a member of the St. Louis Cardinals was called a mensch in the Jewish Light was 2013, when our Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Bob Cohn penned a tribute to Stan Musial. He wrote of a man who...

I first met Isaac Herzog in Israel around 2018, shortly after he became chair of the board of the Jewish Agency for Israel—an organization dedicated to strengthening both Israel and the Jewish people...

Now in his 28th season as the chief engineer and production coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network, Jim Jackson was inducted into the Missouri Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He was also...

Maia Nagle Abeles, a clinical social worker (LCSW), has relocated to Los Angeles with her husband, Joey Abeles. She started her private practice, Rooted Minds Therapy, specializing in working with...