Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
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....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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...
By Seth Rogovoy, The Forward
• Published 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...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published 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...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published 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...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published 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,...
JENNIFER BAER, Director, PJ Library & Family Engagement at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis
• Published 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...
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...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published 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...
Former St. Louisans Sammy Elfanbaum and Mitch Brodden and their band, Post Sex Nachos, will perform at the 2024 Lollapalooza music festival, which will be held in Grant’s Park in Chicago on Aug. 1-4...
Dylan Moulton and her American University swim team set two school records at the Patriot League championships: the 200 and the 400 free relays.
A sophomore at AU, she is the daughter of Shary and Jeff...
