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 Shaare Emeth, Kavadlo is a professor of English at...
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 (their band performs on Sunday, Aug. 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 Moulton and is majoring in neuroscience.
Former St. Louisan Gene Schenberg received the Electronic Transaction Association’s Top Payment Sales Professional Award 2024.
Out of the thousands of eligible sales representatives, he was one of 50 sales representatives from member companies who...
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Alex Shapiro as chief philanthropy officer.
In this role he will report to the president and CEO and oversee a team of 16 working toward $10 million in annual giving, as well as the completion...
Artist Mark Witzling has been selected to participate in the selective Chateau Orquevaux artist residency program in Orquevaux, France this spring.
He was awarded grant support for the residency from the Denis Diderot Foundation and the Regional...
Ashley Pollock has joined National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis as its membership manager.
In this role, she will coordinate and support leadership and membership initiatives including all special events, leadership programs, membership programs...
Rabbi James Stone Goodman is set to release his new book of poems and stories, “Fountain, Respect for Sources,” with a special, free live performance on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) at Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman...
As the new YPD development officer, Alec Rothman will be working with young adults in the St. Louis community, engaging them in the Jewish Federation of St. Louis with events, programs and development efforts. She recently spent a year as the membership...
Benjamin Philip’s short story, “The Empty Throne,” was published in the Sunday Morning Transport, an online website that delivers science fiction or fantasy short stories each Sunday.
Under the pen name Benjamin C. Kinney, his story is about Jewish...
Ed Musen was recently named president of the board of directors for ShowStoppers, a non-profit organization that presents an annual Broadway Musical Revue.
This year there will be four performances featuring Broadway musicals from Burt Bacharach, Stephen...
Joanne Garfinkel Iskiwitch has received the 2023 Coldwell Banker President’s Elite Award, given to top Coldwell Banker Realty-Gundaker agents locally.
She also ranked as the No. 4 individual agent out of a total of 1325+ agents companywide in 2023.
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