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Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 9, 2024

As Passover draws near this year, Chabad is gearing up to welcome hundreds of attendees to public Passover seders on the first two nights of the holiday— on April 22 and 23. The...

From Hebrew school to hot jazz, how Elana James's musical journey brought her to St. Louis

From Hebrew school to hot jazz, how Elana James’s musical journey brought her to St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 9, 2024

Sometimes the most unexpected journeys lead to the most remarkable destinations. For Elana James, hers has beena musical one which began at the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in Kansas City and now brings...

What mentorship looks like when it isn’t called mentorship

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 8, 2024

I first heard Mayer Klein talk about his mentor during the Staenberg Speaker Series event last month. Klein was speaking to a room full of young professionals about the importance of community, and his...

Drew Patchin.

Miracle update: Doctors able to remove all of 11-year-old Drew Patchin’s brain cancer

Ellen Futterman, Editor-In-ChiefPublished April 8, 2024

A good news update on 11-year-old Drew Patchin, who was diagnosed in 2019 with a rare form of brain cancer called Anaplastic ependymoma. After participating in a Car T-cell therapy clinical trial at St....

Indiana State Sycamores head coach Josh Schertz yells to players on the court Tuesday, March 26, 2024, during the quarterfinals of the NIT at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute. The Indiana State Sycamores defeated the Cincinnati Bearcats, 85-81.

Josh Schertz takes reins at SLU as its new men’s head basketball coach

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 7, 2024

St. Louis University announced Josh Schertz has been hired as its new head coach of the Billikens' men's basketball program. The former Indiana State coach was a 2024 Red Auerbach Coach of the Year...

The secret Jewish history of the solar eclipse

The secret Jewish history of the solar eclipse

By Seth Rogovoy, The ForwardPublished April 7, 2024

Editor’s Note: The original version of this story was published by the Forward Aug. 17, 2017. While Jewish tradition has long been accepting of the basic scientific explanations for the rules...

Eliad Eliyahu Ben Shushan, Mirjam Heutink and Naomi Petel Adle.

Survivors of Hamas attack visit St. Louis, sharing painful memories and grateful testimony

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 5, 2024

Last Oct. 7, everything changed for Naomi Petel Adler and Mirjam Heutink, two residents of Nahal Oz, a kibbutz less than one mile from Gaza. Both women and their families survived the Hamas attack. They...

Madam Owlberta Wobblewings and her mama owl

Madam Owlberta Wobblewings now has a Jewish home for her baby

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 4, 2024

One of the newest residents at The Clover STL apartment community in Olivette is Madam Owlberta Wobblewings. The great horned owl has taken up residence on the balcony of an apartment rented by Jewish...

Know someone fighting hate? Here’s how to nominate them for the Lutz Humanitarian Award

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 3, 2024

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Lutz Humanitarian Award. This annual tribute is named in honor of the late Holocaust rescuer and former St. Louisan,...

5 great Passover books for kids from the PJ Library

5 great Passover books for kids from the PJ Library

JENNIFER BAER, Director, PJ Library & Family Engagement at the Jewish Federation of St. LouisPublished April 3, 2024

I have a terrible memory.  Actually, I remember obscure details really well but forget passwords, early pick up times, birthday parties and pretty much anything with numbers.  I should seriously pause...

Jesse Kavadlo

Jesse Kavadlo’s and his wit finally selected for ‘The New Yorker’s’ cartoon caption

Published April 3, 2024

After 27 submissions, Jesse Kavadlo’s caption was selected by The New Yorker for its weekly cartoon. Each week the magazine provides an original cartoon in need of a caption. A member of Congregation...

Remembering Esther Schimmel, the hot dog queen of Cardinals baseball

Remembering Esther Schimmel, the hot dog queen of Cardinals baseball

Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished April 3, 2024

The St. Louis Cardinals won their first World Series in 1926, over the New York Yankees. The following season, just outside the ballpark, Esther Schimmel opened a hot dog stand that would feed countless...

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