Dana DeBlasi is the new president of Shaare Emeth’s board of directors for the 2024-2025 term. She is the senior director, DMS Project Management at the Jewish Federations of North America.

After 21 years at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, Patty Bloom is going out on her own. She was most recently the director of admissions and marketing. BLOOM Strategies for Growing, her new company, offers strategies for admissions skillset, enrollment,...

Andrea Newstead has been promoted to director of operations at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School. She was previously the director of technology and will now oversee marketing and communications, technology and security. This will be Newstead’s 19th...

Fourteen-year-old Yosef E. Granillo is a National Merit Scholar. He will receive a $2,500 yearly award from Boeing for four years at the college of his choice. He is also a full member of the St. Louis Youth Symphony Orchestra. Yosef is the son...

Ben Hillman will serve as president of Gastronauts Food Group, the collaboration of food brands Hi-Pointe Drive-In and Taco Buddha. The group will assist both restaurants in sustainable growth, streamlined operational efficiencies and collaborative...

Congregation B’nai Amoona USY (BAUSY) recently elected its 2024-25 board. President is Sydney Fowler. She is the daughter of Laura and Scot Fowler and is a junior at Pattonville High School. 

Lynda Lieberman was installed as president of Congregation B’nai Amoona’s Sisterhood on June 9 for a two-year term. She is a retired CPA and is a part-time accountant for Hillel at Washington University. The Sisterhood of Congregation B'nai Amoona...

Diane Fadem is the new b’nai mitzvah coordinator at Congregation Temple Israel. She is responsible for the communication and coordination of each bar or bat mitzvah event and the primary point of contact for the parents. Fadem also tutors b’nai...

Dodi Smason has joined the Jewish Federation of St. Louis team as its manager of Jewish Community Engagement. She will be working to enhance Federation’s community internally and externally by creating Jewish engagement and educational opportunities,...

Former St. Louisan Samantha (Sam) Thal was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She has joined Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka, Minn. as a pulpit rabbi.

St. Louis-based author Martin Sneider will be at Left Bank Books at 6 p.m. Monday, June 3 to discuss and sign copies of his latest novel, “Amy Unbound.” It continues the suspenseful saga of shoe magnate Josh Feldman and his family, who Sneider...

Steve Rosenzweig, chief financial officer of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, former CFO and COO of the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis and board member of the Jewish Light, has been honored with the Teaching Excellence Award for Adjunct Faculty...