Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 13, 2023
In 1989, then Washington University Chancellor William H. Danforth created the Holocaust Memorial Lecture series. Since then, the series has been held annually on or near the date of Nov. 9, the anniversary...
A copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” was found in a children’s room that was used as a Hamas terror base in the northern Gaza Strip, Isaac Herzog has revealed.
The Israeli president held...
Jewish News Syndicate
• Published November 12, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there could be a hostage deal with Hamas, speaking in an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
“I think the less I say about it, the...
By Andrew Silverstein, The Forward
• Published November 12, 2023
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“bUt Do You cOnDeMn HaMas?????”
The sign floated in the distance...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 12, 2023
Epstein Hebrew Academy students, staff and family members held Blue And White Spirit Day on Sunday, Nov. 12 and the Blue Team was the big winner.
The event was originally designed to be a family-friendly...
(New York Jewish Week) — Jews and comic books — two deeply entwined entities — will be the subject of a new pop culture event this weekend in New York, but all fans in St. Louis are invited to...
(JTA) — For more than two decades, Mitch Albom has been perhaps the best-selling Jewish author alive — even as his books tend to embrace a much broader and more amorphous definition of “faith.”
But...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2023
Among the many films featured in the 32nd annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival, which runs Nov. 9 - 19, is a short documentary by St. Louis Jewish director Barbara Langsam Shuman called...
By Ellen F. Harris, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2023
A few times a month, Roz Chast takes the train from Connecticut to her pied de terre on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she lived for many years before moving to the suburbs to raise her family.
“It’s...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2023
Fall brings colorful leaves and the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), which runs Nov. 9-19 this year, at several venues including the Hi-Pointe Theater, which is now owned by Cinema St. Louis,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 9, 2023
In a powerful statement issued on the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is labeling the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel as a "pogrom," drawing...
BY BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 9, 2023
A group of protesters assembled in front of the American Red Cross building on North Lindbergh Boulevard Thursday, Nov. 9 to plead for the organization to provide care for Israeli hostages. About 40 people...
