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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Ninth graders at the yearly Tzofim camps in Orlando, Fla.

What are the Israeli Scouts?

NOAM BUCH, Eighth grade, Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community SchoolPublished March 24, 2023

Although small, the Israeli community is rapidly growing across the United States. With hundreds of new Israelis moving to the United States every year, many may feel homesick in a new culture and environment. Even miles from home, the Israeli Scouts...

Image taken by Cass Anderson

Q&A with rising musician Noah Levine

Katie Wallace, Junior, Parkway West High SchoolPublished February 22, 2023

Noah Levine, also known as Noah in the Open, is a talented 20-year-old Jewish singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas. In addition to making his own music, he has recently been touring with folk-pop singer Noah Kahan, who is also Jewish, as his lead guitarist....

New literary magazine will share stories of St. Louis’ Jewish students

New literary magazine will share stories of St. Louis’ Jewish students

By Daniel Shanker and Avital Vorobeychick, Ohr Chadash staffPublished January 26, 2023

The St. Louis Jewish community includes individuals from many different backgrounds who hold diverse perspectives and beliefs. With such diversity comes the perfect opportunity for individuals to share their story.  Enter the Machshava Literary Magazine....

In a 2017 file photo, David Feit Mann, then a sophomore at Yeshiva Kadmiah High School, closed a Student to Student presentation for an AP English class at Affton High School by explaining how a ram’s horn is used in Judaism. Photo: Eric Berger

These St. Louis teens are at the forefront of fighting antisemitism

By Noam Buch , 8th grade at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community SchoolPublished January 4, 2023

In 2021, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that over 2,717 anti-Semitic incidents were reported in the United States. This number is a 34% increase from the previous year. At the forefront of this rise of antisemitism, are Jewish teenagers. Rylie...

Adina Golbus, 17, 11th grade, from San Rafael, California. (Zoe Klevens)

Humans of Heller High: What nine teens learned on an immersive program in Israel

BY ZOE KLEVENS , JTAPublished December 19, 2022

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with teens across the world to report on issues that impact their lives. (JTA) — After nearly two years of hybrid learning at school, some students couldn’t...

Ohr Chadash Teen Page writer Benjamin Kruger (above) writes about his recent visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

In the center of the Jewish world, the Western Wall connects rather than divides us

Published November 22, 2022

There is something poetic about the wall. It exists as a border; a formidable obstacle to separate components. But as is often true about poetic instruments, this wall had another meaning. The dichotomy of the wall: the symbolic value of both separation...

Kadimah students are “All In” at overnight bonding event

Kadimah students are “All In” at overnight bonding event

Published November 16, 2022

Students at Yeshivat Kadimah High School (known as Kadimah) took a bus on Sunday, Aug. 28 to Godfrey, Ill. for the school’s very first “all in” overnight event.  This was a fantastic way for students to bond and a great start to the upcoming school...

Photo by Benjamin Kruger

Spark of Judaism flickers near Pettus Bridge in Selma

BENJAMIN KRUGER, Junior, Parkway Central High SchoolPublished August 31, 2022

I’m part of a teen social justice group called Cultural Leadership, through which we learn about oppression through the lens of the Jewish and Black experiences. Earlier this summer, we traveled through the country, mainly in the South, and found ourselves...

Participants in JCRC’s Student to Student program go into schools to introduce non-Jewish students to Judaism.

Student to Student turns Jewish teens into peer educators

AVITAL VOROBEYCHIK , Freshman, Yeshivat Kadimah High SchoolPublished May 13, 2022

The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is an organization that seeks to enhance cooperation among religious, racial, ethnic and civic groups. Student to Student is one of the JCRC’s premier programs. Lauren Abraham is the director of the Student...

Rabbi Zeev Smason

Rabbi Ze’ev Smason to retire in fall 

DANIEL SHANKER, FRESHMAN, YESHIVAT KADIMAH HIGH SCHOOLPublished May 4, 2022

Judaism values a variety of interpersonal traits. Rabbi Ze’ev Smason of Nusach Hari B’nai Zion, a modern Orthodox synagogue in Olivette, sums them up in four words: “To be a mensch.” “[Being a mensch] means being a person of scrupulous...

A wake-up call for teens about the importance of getting enough sleep

A wake-up call for teens about the importance of getting enough sleep

NOAM BUCH, SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOLPublished May 4, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control says kids ages 13 to 18 should get eight to 10 hours of sleep. But according to the American Physical Therapy Association, 58% of middle schoolers don’t get enough sleep. Ayden Nelson, a seventh grader at Saul Mirowitz...

Are you a young Jewish writer? A new local literary magazine wants to publish you

Are you a young Jewish writer? A new local literary magazine wants to publish you

By Daniel Shanker and Avital VorobeychikPublished April 14, 2022

Machshava is the Hebrew word for thought. It’s the perfect name for Epstein Hebrew Academy’s literary magazine, as the Machshava encompasses thoughts reflected throughout the St. Louis Jewish community. Thought is a purposely vague term, opening...

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