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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Last Call: Register now for the ultimate Senior Olympics showdown in St. Louis

Last Call: Register now for the ultimate Senior Olympics showdown in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 24, 2024

Athletes have until May 8 to register for the 44th Annual St. Louis Senior Olympics, set for Memorial Day Weekend.  This year's competition boasts over 90 individual and team events, including some new...

Pres. George H.W. Bush and Peter Maer during a 1989 Oval Office interview.

Remembering a St. Louis area native’s Yiddish moment with a U.S. president

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 22, 2024

As the nation braces for the 2024 presidential election, Jean Becker, former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush, shares reflections on leadership in a new book, "Character...

Dafna Revah, MaryAnn Smyly Sabin and Andrew Goldfeder.

JFed of St. Louis announces ‘2024 Evening of Impact Award’ recipients

Published April 22, 2024

Jewish Federation of St. Louis has announced the award winners to be honored at the 2024 Evening of Impact to be held Thursday, May 9. Dafna Revah and MaryAnn Smyly Sabin have been chosen as the recipients...

PHOTOS: 'The Passover Project' is the musical seder sensation of the future

PHOTOS: ‘The Passover Project’ is the musical seder sensation of the future

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 19, 2024

The Jewish Light's first ever “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder” was a sold out masterpiece of creativity. With more than 300 tickets sold, the audience packed the City Winery St. Louis at the...

Rabbi Jeffrey Gale

Rabbi Jeffrey Gale to discuss new book at U. City Library

Published April 18, 2024

From 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, May 6 author Rabbi Jeffrey Gale will discuss his new book, “The Secret of Redemption.” This book is the sequel to the author’s first book, “The Ballad of East and West,”...

Israeli army flares fall over the northern Har Dov area on Mount Hermon on Nov. 13, 2023, amid increasing cross-border tensions between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel as fighting continues with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)

Survey: Jews feel close to Israel; its government, not so much

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished April 18, 2024

(JTA) — As of early March, five months into Israel’s war with Hamas, American Jews felt close to Israel but were also likely to feel uncomfortable with its government’s actions, according to a Jewish...

Marilen Pitler holds her special seder plate.

Unveiling the some of the quirkiest seder traditions in St. Louis

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN & BILL MOTCHAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished April 17, 2024

No doubt when Passover begins at sundown Monday, April 22, thousands of St. Louis Jewish families will be marking the holiday with a seder that evening and possibly the next during the eight-day holiday. Just...

“MATZA MIA: Six13’s Passover parody is the matzah ball of musical mashups!

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 17, 2024

Just in time for the first night of Passover, Jewish a cappella group Six13 dropped their latest musical parody video - MATZA MIA! If the title doesn't jump out at you, it's a not to the legendary...

Zachary Miller

Zachary Millner, NYU freshman, Clayton alum gets work displayed in New York exhibit

Published April 17, 2024

While a student at Clayton High School, Zachary Millner had two pieces of artwork chosen for the digital 2023 AP Art & Design Exhibit, which is currently online to view. His portfolio was one of...

Abi Kornblum

Young actress Abi Kornblum embarks on film journey in new role

Published April 17, 2024

Abi Kornblum will star as the daughter/granddaughter in an upcoming short film about a family from the Ozarks (she cannot share the film’s title until it is released). The daughter of Monica and the...

Dr. Michael J. Holtzman.

WashU establishes lectureship honoring Dr. Michael J. Holtzman

Published April 17, 2024

The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine created an endowed fund to support a lectureship in honor of Dr. Michael J....

Rachel Wallis Andreasson

Rachel Wallis Andreasson helps unlock the secret to sustainable leadership in new book

Published April 17, 2024

Rachel Wallis Andreasson is the coauthor of a new book, “The Sixth Level: Capitalize on the Power of Women’s Psychology for Sustainable Leadership.” Andreasson is the executive director of Congregation...

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